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2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service in Maine

2 Ranked Colleges
347 Degrees Awarded
$25,200 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Master's in Maine

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Master’s in Maine” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Public Administration & Social Service is the 14th most popular major in the country with 97,666 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, public administration and social service graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $39,142 and had an average of $32,304 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 554 public administration and social service graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,625 and $30,690 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 347 public administration and social service graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,633 and $49,829 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Master’s in Maine” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in public administration and social service. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great public administration and social service programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the public administration and social service program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Master’s in Maine” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Master’s in Maine

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Master’s in Maine.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service in Maine

#2 in overall quality

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 Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Master’s in Maine. University of Southern Maine is located in Portland, Maine and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 68 masters’s public administration and social service degrees to qualified students.

University of Southern Maine not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Public Administration & Social Service 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 University of Southern Maine are $22,308.

Read full report on Public Administration & Social Service at University of Southern Maine

#2

University of New England

Biddeford, Maine
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Master’s in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New England landed the #2 spot on the list. University of New England is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Biddeford, Maine. It awarded 236 masters’s public administration and social service degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our maine master’s degree public administration & social service students list, UNE has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Public Administration & Social Service Master’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UNE are $28,016, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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