2022 Best Value Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting is the 12th most popular major in the country with 141,046 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, homeland security, law enforcement and firefighting graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,494 and had an average of $25,120 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 323 homeland security, law enforcement and firefighting graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,100 and $28,121 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 130 homeland security, law enforcement and firefighting graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in homeland security, law enforcement and firefighting. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great homeland security, law enforcement and firefighting programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the homeland security, law enforcement and firefighting program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting (Income $48-$75k) in Maine

#1

University of Maine at Augusta

Augusta, Maine

#3 in overall quality

$11,007 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine at Augusta. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k list. Augusta, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s homeland security, law enforcement and firefighting degrees to 19 students in 2019-2020.

UMA not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $11,007 for maine bachelor’s degree homeland security, law enforcement & firefighting students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend UMA.

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#2

University of Maine at Presque Isle

Presque Isle, Maine

#4 in overall quality

$10,025 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine at Presque Isle. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k list. This small school is located in Presque Isle, Maine, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s homeland security, law enforcement and firefighting degrees in 2019-2020.

UMPI did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The estimated yearly cost for UMPI is $10,025 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting students whose families make $48-$75k.

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#3

Husson University

Bangor, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$17,084 Average Net Price

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Husson University landed the #3 spot on the list. This small school is located in Bangor, Maine, and it awarded 60 bachelors’s homeland security, law enforcement and firefighting degrees in 2019-2020.

Husson also took the #2 spot in our “Best Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Husson is $17,084 for maine bachelor’s degree homeland security, law enforcement & firefighting students whose families make $48-$75k.

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#4

Thomas College

Waterville, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$18,419 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Thomas College. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k list. Thomas College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Waterville, Maine. It awarded 33 bachelors’s homeland security, law enforcement and firefighting degrees in 2019-2020.

Thomas College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $18,419 for maine bachelor’s degree homeland security, law enforcement & firefighting students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Thomas College.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting (Income $48-$75k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting (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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