2022 Best Vallue Forestry Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making Over $110k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Vallue Forestry Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 2,292 people earned their degree in forestry, making the major the 187th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, forestry graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $38,496 and had an average of $20,610 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 42 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $23,301 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 forestry graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent forestry 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 forestry program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Vallue Forestry Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making Over $110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree forestry students whose families make more than $110k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Forestry (Income Over $110k) in Maine

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,558 Average Net Price

$43,798 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Vallue Forestry Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making Over $110k list. Located in Orono, Maine, this fairly large public school awarded 20 degrees to qualified bachelors’s forestry students in 2019-2020.

UMaine also took the #1 spot in our “Best Forestry Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Maine is $17,558 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Forestry students whose families make more than $110k.

The low student loan default rate of 4.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Forestry at UMaine

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Forestry (Income Over $110k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Forestry (Income Over $110k)

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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