2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fine Arts in Maine

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking.

Fine Arts is the 67th most popular major in the country with 12,032 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Maine, there were 74 fine arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 54 fine arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in fine arts. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great fine arts programs and 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 fine arts program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree fine arts students.

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

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,558 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine list. UMaine is located in Orono, Maine and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 15 bachelors’s fine arts degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMaine, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Fine Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UMaine is $17,558 for maine bachelor’s degree fine arts students.

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 University of Maine Fine Arts Report

#2

University of Southern Maine

Portland, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$12,339 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Maine. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine list. Portland, Maine is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s fine arts degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at University of Southern Maine, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Fine Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $12,339 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Fine Arts students per year to attend 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.

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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jorge Royan.

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