2022 Best Value Social Work Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Social Work Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Social Work is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 8th of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 56,762 degrees were awarded to students with this major.

Across Maine, there were 417 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 326 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,633 and $49,829 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Social Work Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in social work. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality social work programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the social work program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Social Work Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Social Work Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Social Work (Income $48-$75k) in Maine

#1

University of Southern Maine

Portland, Maine

#3 in overall quality

$22,308 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Social Work Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k list. University of Southern Maine is a public institution located in Portland, Maine. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 47 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Southern Maine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Social Work 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 Social Work at University of Southern Maine

#2

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$28,352 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Social Work Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k list. Orono, Maine is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s social work degrees to 43 students in 2019-2020.

UMaine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Social Work Master’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Maine are $28,352, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full UMaine Social Work Report

#3

University of New England

Biddeford, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$28,016 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New England. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Social Work Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k list. UNE is a medium-sized school located in Biddeford, Maine that handed out 236 masters’s social work degrees in 2019-2020.

UNE did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Social Work Master’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UNE are $28,016, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Social Work at UNE

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Social Work (Income $48-$75k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Social Work (Income $48-$75k)

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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