2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Fine & Studio Arts in Maine

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Maine” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Fine & Studio Arts is the 29th most popular major in the country with 39,860 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, fine and studio arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $23,847 and had an average of $28,316 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 162 fine and studio arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $18,300 and $23,849 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 fine and studio arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $80,229 and $177,250 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality fine and studio arts programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the fine and studio arts 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Maine” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Maine

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Maine.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Fine & Studio Arts in Maine

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 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 #1 on our 2022 Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Maine list. UMaine is a public institution located in Orono, Maine. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UMaine also took the #1 spot in our “Best Fine & Studio Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Maine are $28,352, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Fine & Studio Arts at UMaine

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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 Jorge Royan.

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