2023 Most Popular Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Maine
With all the teaching programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best 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 Most Popular Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Maine ranking. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Maine to see which basic certificate programs were the most popular for teaching students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from each school on the list.
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Most Popular Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Maine
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Our 2023 rankings named Eastern Maine Community College the most popular school in Maine for teaching students working on their basic certificate. Located in Bangor, Maine, the small public school handed out 1 basic certificate awards in 2020-2021.
In-state students pay an average of $3,865 in tuition and fees if they attend Eastern Maine Community College full time. Those students who come from outside the state pay an average of $6,745. Around 100% of those degree recipients were women.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Eastern Maine Community College does offer online classes for certain majors. In 2019-2020 about 34% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
Our analysis found University of Maine to be the most popular school for teaching students who want to pursue a basic certificate in Maine. UMaine is a fairly large public school situated in Orono, Maine. It awarded 1 basic certificates in 2020-2021.
The average in-state tuition and fees for students at UMaine is $11,986. Out-of-state students pay an average of $33,586. Of those students who received their degree, 100% were women.
UMaine does have options available for those who want to take online classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. During the 2019-2020 year, about 98% of the undergraduates at the school took at least one online course.
The excellent basic certificate programs at University of Southern Maine helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular teaching schools in Maine.
Full-time students from Maine pay an average of $9,904 in tuition and fees if they choose to attend University of Southern Maine. If you are from out of state, expect to pay an average of $23,881.
University of Southern Maine does have options available for those who want to take online classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. In fact, around 87% of the undergraduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
The excellent basic certificate programs at University of Maine at Augusta helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular teaching schools in Maine.
In-state students pay an average of $8,378 in tuition and fees if they attend UMA full time. Those students who come from outside the state pay an average of $19,238.
Depending on your major, you may be able to take online classes at UMA. In fact, around 86% of the undergraduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages 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.
- 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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