2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Psychology in Maine

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Psychology Schools for a Doctorate in Maine” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Psychology is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 7th of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 183,889 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, psychology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,496 and had an average of $36,227 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 500 psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,127 and $31,796 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $80,229 and $177,250 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Psychology Schools for a Doctorate in Maine” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in psychology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great psychology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the psychology program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Psychology Schools for a Doctorate in Maine” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Psychology Schools for a Doctorate in Maine

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

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Psychology in Maine

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$28,352 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Psychology Schools for a Doctorate in Maine. UMaine is a fairly large school located in Orono, Maine that handed out 1 doctorate’s psychology degrees in 2019-2020.

UMaine also took the #1 spot in our “Best Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UMaine are $28,352, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Psychology at University of Maine

#2

University of Southern Maine

Portland, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$22,308 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Psychology Schools for a Doctorate in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Maine landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Southern Maine is a medium-sized school located in Portland, Maine that handed out 1 doctorate’s psychology degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Southern Maine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Southern Maine are $22,308, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Psychology at University of Southern Maine

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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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