2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology in Maine

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for a Master’s in Maine” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 31,746 people earned their degree in clinical, counseling and applied psychology, making the major the 37th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, clinical, counseling and applied psychology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $45,872 and had an average of $65,193 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 93 clinical, counseling and applied psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,100 and $29,129 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 33 clinical, counseling and applied psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,633 and $49,829 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for a Master’s in Maine” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in clinical, counseling and applied psychology. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent clinical, counseling and applied psychology programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the clinical, counseling and applied psychology 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.

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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 Clinical Psychology Schools for a Master’s in Maine” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for a Master’s in Maine

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine master’s degree clinical psychology students.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology in Maine

#1

University of Southern Maine

Portland, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$22,308 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$57,318 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern Maine. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for a Master’s in Maine. Portland, Maine is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s clinical psychology degrees to 19 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at University of Southern Maine, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Southern Maine are $22,308, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#2

Husson University

Bangor, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$17,100 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for a Master’s in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Husson University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Bangor, Maine, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 14 diplomas to qualified masters’s clinical psychology students in 2019-2020.

Husson did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Husson University are $17,100.

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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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