2022 Best Value Physics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Physics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 14,123 people earned their degree in physics, making the major the 67th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, physics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $42,475 and had an average of $22,421 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 54 physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 51 physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

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

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Physics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Physics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physics in Maine

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,558 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Physics Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine list. This fairly large school is located in Orono, Maine, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s physics degrees in 2019-2020.

UMaine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Physics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $17,558 for maine bachelor’s degree physics students per year to attend University of Maine.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Physics 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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