2023 Best Value Teaching Graduate Certificate 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 help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Teaching Degree Search has developed this Best Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Maine ranking. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in Maine to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for teaching students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
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.
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Top Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Maine
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Our analysis found Saint Joseph’s College of Maine to be the best value school for teaching students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Maine. Saint Joseph’s College of Maine is a small private not-for-profit school located in Standish, Maine that handed out 1 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Saint Joseph’s Maine are $9,766 a year.
Interested in an online degree? Then you definitely want to check out Saint Joseph’s Maine. Every graduate student at the school took at least one class online.
Saint Joseph’s Maine also made our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Maine list, coming in at #2.
A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Maine is a great place for teaching students working on their graduate certificate who want the most bang for their educational buck. UMaine is located in Orono, Maine and has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 66 graduate certificates to qualified students.
UMaine graduate students pay an average of $29,490 in tuition and fees each year.
Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at UMaine. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 74% took at least some of their classes online.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UMaine is ranked #3 for overall quality in Maine.
The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Southern Maine helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value teaching schools in Maine. This medium-sized public school is located in Portland, Maine, and it awarded 40 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at University of Southern Maine are $22,968 a year.
Some students may be able to take online graduate classes at University of Southern Maine. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 94% took at least some of their classes online.
University of Southern Maine also made our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Maine list, coming in at #5.
The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Maine at Farmington helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value teaching schools in Maine. Located in Farmington, Maine, the small public school awarded 25 diplomas to qualifed graduate certificate students in 2020-2021.
UMaine Farmington graduate students pay an average of $11,038 in tuition and fees each year.
Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at UMaine Farmington. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 58% took at least some of their classes online.
UMaine Farmington not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #4 on our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Maine list.
The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of New England helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value teaching schools in Maine. This medium-sized private not-for-profit school is located in Biddeford, Maine, and it awarded 79 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
UNE graduate students pay an average of $29,352 in tuition and fees each year.
UNE does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 50% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
UNE did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Maine list.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 5 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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