2022 Best Vallue Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making Over $110k

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Drama & Theater Arts is the 59th most popular major in the country with 18,124 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, drama and theater arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $21,403 and had an average of $26,932 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 30 drama and theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 29 drama and theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

This year’s “Best Vallue Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making Over $110k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in drama and theater arts. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent drama and theater arts programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the drama and theater arts program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Vallue Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making Over $110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree theater students whose families make more than $110k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Drama & Theater Arts (Income Over $110k) in Maine

#1

University of Southern Maine

Portland, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$12,339 Average Net Price

$25,194 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Vallue Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making Over $110k list. University of Southern Maine is a medium-sized school located in Portland, Maine that handed out 8 bachelors’s theater degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Southern Maine also took the #2 spot in our “Best Drama & Theater Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $12,339 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Theater students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend University of Southern Maine.

Read more about Drama & Theater Arts at University of Southern Maine

#2

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,558 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #2 for the Best Vallue Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making Over $110k. Located in Orono, Maine, this fairly large public school awarded 7 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s theater students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMaine, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Drama & Theater Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UMaine is $17,558 for maine bachelor’s degree theater students whose families make more than $110k.

The low student loan default rate of 4.8% 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%.

Read more about Drama & Theater Arts at UMaine

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Drama & Theater Arts (Income Over $110k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Drama & Theater Arts (Income Over $110k)

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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Donald Judge.

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