2022 Best Value Wielding Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k

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 Wielding Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 40,882 people earned their degree in welding technology/welder, making the major the 194th most popular in the United States.

Across Maine, there were 74 welding technology/welder graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 26 welding technology/welder graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,425 and $17,736 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Wielding Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in welding technology/welder. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality welding technology/welder programs that also have a lower cost than 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 welding technology/welder program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Wielding Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine associate degree wielding students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Welding Technology/Welder (Income $48-$75k) in Maine

#1

Eastern Maine Community College

Bangor, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$11,674 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern Maine Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Wielding Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k. Located in Bangor, Maine, this small public school awarded 13 diplomas to qualified associates’s wielding students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Eastern Maine Community College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Welding Technology/Welder Associate Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Eastern Maine Community College is $11,674 for Maine Associate Degree Wielding students whose families make $48-$75k.

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#2

Beal College

Bangor, Maine

#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Beal College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Wielding Schools for an Associate in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k. Bangor, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out associates’s wielding degrees to 13 students in 2019-2020.

Beal College also took the #2 spot in our “Best Welding Technology/Welder Associate Degree Schools in Maine” ranking.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Welding Technology/Welder (Income $48-$75k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Welding Technology/Welder (Income $48-$75k)

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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