2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geographic Information Science in Maine

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Geographic Information Science is the 333rd most popular major in the country with 3,231 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Maine, there were 26 geographic information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 geographic information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,463 and $30,985 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Maine” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in geographic information science. That schools that top this list have a program in geographic information science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Maine

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree geographic information science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geographic Information Science in Maine

1

University of Southern Maine
Portland, Maine

#9 overall quality in Maine

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 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Maine. Portland, Maine is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s geographic information science degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.2% 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 University of Southern Maine Geographic Information Science Report

2

Unity College
Unity, Maine

#7 overall quality in Maine

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Unity College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Unity, Maine, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 20 degrees to qualified bachelors’s geographic information science students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Geographic Information Science at Unity College

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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