2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Maine

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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Maine” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Social Sciences is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 5th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 205,984 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, social sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,262 and had an average of $23,306 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 937 social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,781 and $20,866 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 0 social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,263 and $19,245 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Maine” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in social sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in social sciences.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The social sciences school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Maine”.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Maine

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine associate degree social sciences students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Social Sciences in Maine

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Central Maine Community College
Auburn, Maine

#17 overall quality in Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central Maine Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Maine list. Auburn, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s social sciences degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Social Sciences at Central Maine Technical College

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University of Maine at Fort Kent
Fort Kent, Maine

#12 overall quality in Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine at Fort Kent. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in Maine. This small school is located in Fort Kent, Maine, and it awarded 0 associates’s social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Social Sciences at UMFK

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Social Sciences in the New England Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Social Sciences

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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