Student athletes have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its Best Colleges for Men's Football in Maine ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
After analyzing 4 schools in Maine, we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for Men's Football athletes in Maine. Instead of depending on subjective information, we focus on objective factors to determine this ranking. These factors include such things as the athletic competitiveness of the school and the school's overall quality. This means that a school must provide students with a great education in addition to having a good sports team if it wants to rank well.
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Top Colleges in Maine for Men's Football athletes in Maine
Our analysis found Colby College to be the best school for Men’s Football athletes in Maine in this year’s ranking. Located in Waterville, Maine, the small private not-for-profit school handed out 734 bachelor’s degrees in .
The Men’s Football team at Colby brought home $852,876 in revenue in a single year.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Colby also took the #2 spot in our overall quality rankings.
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A rank of #2 on our list means Bates College is a great place for Men’s Football athletes in Maine working on their bachelor’s degree. Bates College is a small private not-for-profit school located in Lewiston, Maine that handed out 601 bachelor’s degrees in .
The Men’s Football team at Bates made $637,177 in revenue, while incurring $599,090 in expenses. That boils down to a yearly profit of $38,087 for the sports team.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Bates not only placed well in this ranking, but it is also #3 on our overall quality list.
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The excellent sports programs at Maine Maritime Academy helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for Men’s Football athletes in Maine. Castine, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelor’s degrees to 165 students in .
With a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. Maine Maritime did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our overall quality list.
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The excellent sports programs at University of Maine helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for Men’s Football athletes in Maine. UMaine is a public institution located in Orono, Maine. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2,047 bachelor’s degrees in .
Speaking financially, the Men’s Football team at UMaine took home $4,484,610 in revenue. The team has a respectable academic progress rate of 952.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 4 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.
The academic progress rate (APR) of each team was made available by the NCAA.
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%.
