2023 Best Value Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Maine

Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

There are so many teaching programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools and bootcamps that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Teaching Degree Search has created its Best Value Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Maine ranking.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Top Value Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Maine

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Southern Maine Community College

South Portland, Maine

33 Total Awards

#1 in Quality in Maine

$6,754 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Southern Maine Community College the best value school in Maine for teaching students working on their associate degree. South Portland, Maine is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associate degrees to 33 students in 2020-2021.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at SMCC are $6,754 per year. Associate Degree recipients from this school accumulate an average of $16,222 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.

Online courses are available at SMCC, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. During the 2019-2020 year, about 81% of the undergraduates at the school took at least one online course.

SMCC also made our Best Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Maine list, coming in at #1.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 1 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.

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