2021 Best Colleges in Maine for Students from Pakistan

When pursuing a degree in today's world, international students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our Best Colleges for Pakistani Students in Maine ranking - to help you make that decision.

Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Maine to determine which ones were the best for Pakistani students in Maine. To come up with this ranking, we look at a number of factors that are all objective measurements. These factors include the school's overall quality as determined by our Best Colleges ranking and the percentage of international students on campus.

See what other factors we include in our ranking methodology.

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Top Colleges in Maine for Students from Pakistan

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

Colby College
Waterville, ME

$61,220 Avg Tuition & Fees

8.6% International Students

Our 2021 rankings named Colby College the best school for Pakistani students in Maine working on their bachelor’s degree. Colby College is a small private not-for-profit school located in Waterville, Maine that handed out 711 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Of the total number of students at the school, 8.6% are international. The top three countries sending students to study at Colby are China, Canada, and India.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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2

Bates College
Lewiston, ME

$59,062 Avg Tuition & Fees

7.9% International Students

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at Bates College helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for Pakistani students in Maine. Bates is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Lewiston, Maine. It awarded 564 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

International students make up 7.9% of the total student body at the school. Students studying at Bates come from such countries as China, India, and Vietnam.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 2 schools only.

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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.