2022 Best Value Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 56,762 social work students received their degree, making the major the 8th most popular in the country.

Across Maine, there were 417 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 91 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in social work. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent social work 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 social work program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree social work students with aid.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Social Work in Maine (With Aid)

#1

University of Southern Maine

Portland, Maine

#3 in overall quality

$12,339 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Portland, Maine, and it awarded 29 bachelors’s social work degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Southern Maine not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Social Work Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Southern Maine is $12,339 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Social Work students with aid.

Read more about Social Work at University of Southern Maine

#2

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,558 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #2 spot on the list. Orono, Maine is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s social work degrees to 45 students in 2019-2020.

UMaine also took the #1 spot in our “Best Social Work Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $17,558 for maine bachelor’s degree social work students with aid per year to attend UMaine.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UMaine Social Work Report

#3

University of New England

Biddeford, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$34,118 Average Net Price

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 Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid list. UNE is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Biddeford, Maine. It awarded 4 bachelors’s social work degrees in 2019-2020.

UNE did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Social Work Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The yearly cost to attend University of New England is $34,118 for maine bachelor’s degree social work students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UNE Social Work Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Social Work in the New England Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Social Work (With Aid)

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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