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2022 Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k

5 Ranked Colleges
62 Degrees Awarded
$9,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor's in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Anthropology is the 77th most popular major in the country with 12,008 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, anthropology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $24,661 and had an average of $23,289 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 63 anthropology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $27,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 62 anthropology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in anthropology. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent anthropology programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the anthropology 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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Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Anthropology (Income $30-$48k) in Maine

#1

Colby College

Waterville, Maine

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Colby College landed the #1 spot on the list. Waterville, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s anthropology degrees to 11 students in 2019-2020.

Colby also made our “Best Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list, coming in at #3. It costs about $3,467 for maine bachelor’s degree anthropology students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Colby College.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The low student loan default rate of 3.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Colby Anthropology Report

#2

Bates College

Lewiston, Maine
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Bates College landed the #2 spot on the list. Bates College is a small school located in Lewiston, Maine that handed out 12 bachelors’s anthropology degrees in 2019-2020.

Bates also took the #2 spot in our “Best Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $9,039 for maine bachelor’s degree anthropology students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Bates.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Anthropology at Bates

#3

Bowdoin College

Brunswick, Maine
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bowdoin College. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k list. Located in Brunswick, Maine, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 10 degrees to qualified bachelors’s anthropology students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Bowdoin, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $12,603 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Anthropology students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Bowdoin.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on Anthropology at Bowdoin College

#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Maine. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k list. Located in Portland, Maine, this medium-sized public school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s anthropology students in 2019-2020.

University of Southern Maine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $9,295 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Anthropology students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend University of Southern Maine.

Full University of Southern Maine Anthropology Report

#5

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Anthropology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #5 spot on the list. UMaine is located in Orono, Maine and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 22 bachelors’s anthropology degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMaine, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Anthropology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Maine is $14,458 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Anthropology students whose families make $30-$48k.

The low student loan default rate of 4.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Anthropology at UMaine

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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