2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Health & Physical Education in Maine

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Phys Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Health & Physical Education is the 11th most popular major in the country with 64,869 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, health and physical education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $29,872 and had an average of $24,778 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 126 health and physical education graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,050 and $26,335 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 116 health and physical education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Phys Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in health and physical education. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality health and physical education programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the health and physical education program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

More Ways to Rank Health & Physical Education Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Phys Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Phys Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Phys Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Health & Physical Education in Maine

#1

University of Southern Maine

Portland, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$12,339 Average Net Price

$32,391 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Phys Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Southern Maine is located in Portland, Maine and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 16 bachelors’s phys ed degrees to qualified students.

University of Southern Maine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Health & Physical Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $12,339 for maine bachelor’s degree phys ed students per year to attend University of Southern Maine.

Read more about Health & Physical Education at University of Southern Maine

#2

University of New England

Biddeford, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$34,118 Average Net Price

$27,784 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New England. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Phys Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine list. This medium-sized school is located in Biddeford, Maine, and it awarded 41 bachelors’s phys ed degrees in 2019-2020.

UNE not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Health & Physical Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of New England is $34,118 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Phys Ed students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of New England Health & Physical Education Report

#3

Saint Joseph's College of Maine

Standish, Maine

#3 in overall quality

$26,929 Average Net Price

$26,933 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Joseph’s College of Maine. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Phys Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine list. This small school is located in Standish, Maine, and it awarded 23 bachelors’s phys ed degrees in 2019-2020.

Saint Joseph’s Maine also took the #3 spot in our “Best Health & Physical Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Saint Joseph’s College of Maine is $26,929 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Phys Ed students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Health & Physical Education at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Health & Physical Education in the New England Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Health & Physical Education

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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