2022 Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 11,561 people earned their degree in theater arts, making the major the 69th most popular in the United States.

Across Maine, there were 25 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in theater arts. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great theater arts programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the theater arts program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Theater Arts in Maine

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,558 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. Orono, Maine is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s theater degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

UMaine also took the #1 spot in our “Best Theater Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Maine is $17,558 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Theater students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Theater Arts at University of Maine

#2

University of Southern Maine

Portland, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$12,339 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Maine landed the #2 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Portland, Maine, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s theater degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Southern Maine not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Theater Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The yearly cost to attend University of Southern Maine is $12,339 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Theater students.

Read more about Theater Arts at University of Southern Maine

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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.

Credits

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

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