2022 Best Value Forest Sciences and Biology Schools for a Doctorate in Maine

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Forest Sciences and Biology Schools for a Doctorate in Maine” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Forest Sciences & Biology is the 634th most popular major in the country with 389 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Maine, there were 11 forest sciences and biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 forest sciences and biology graduates with average earnings and debt of $80,229 and $177,250 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent forest sciences and biology programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the forest sciences and biology program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Forest Sciences and Biology Schools for a Doctorate in Maine

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine doctor’s degree forest sciences and biology students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Forest Sciences & Biology in Maine

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$28,352 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Forest Sciences and Biology Schools for a Doctorate in Maine. UMaine is a fairly large school located in Orono, Maine that handed out 6 doctorate’s forest sciences and biology degrees in 2019-2020.

UMaine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Forest Sciences & Biology Doctor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Maine are $28,352, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Forest Sciences & Biology at UMaine

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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