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Best Education Colleges in Maine
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This ranking scores 11 institutions on graduation rates, graduate earnings, debt burdens, and social mobility data from Opportunity Insights. Every data point comes from federal sources. No surveys, no opinions.
Social mobility carries the heaviest weight in our algorithm. We use Raj Chetty's Mobility Report Card — built on 30 million anonymized tax records — to measure whether a college changes a family's economic trajectory across generations. Schools that take low-income students and launch them into higher earnings rank higher than schools that admit wealthy students and take credit for their success.
The transparency penalty matters here. Schools that don't report their data get scored lower than schools that do. If an institution won't show you its numbers, we think you should know that before you write them a tuition check.
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Education programs in Maine ranked by outcomes and program concentration
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Each dot is a ranked school. Up = higher earnings. Right = higher cost. Top-left is the best value.
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Longer bars = higher graduation rate.
Top 3
University of Maine at Farmington
Farmington, ME
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Thomas College
Waterville, ME
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University of New England
Biddeford, ME
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University of Maine at Farmington
Farmington, ME · 1,140 students · Public
Thomas College
Waterville, ME · 647 students · Private nonprofit
University of New England
Biddeford, ME · 2,135 students · Private nonprofit
University of Maine
Orono, ME · 8,496 students · Public
University of Southern Maine
Portland, ME · 4,222 students · Public
Saint Joseph's College of Maine
Standish, ME · 964 students · Private nonprofit
Eastern Maine Community College
Bangor, ME · 1,840 students · Public
Kennebec Valley Community College
Fairfield, ME · 1,597 students · Public
University of Maine at Presque Isle
Presque Isle, ME · 1,913 students · Public
Central Maine Community College
Auburn, ME · 2,952 students · Public
University of Maine at Augusta
Augusta, ME · 2,659 students · Public
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David Krug
Co-Founder, CollegeRanker
David Krug is the co-founder of CollegeRanker and a data systems architect focused on making institutional research accessible to families. He builds the data pipelines and ranking algorithms that power CollegeRanker, drawing from federal datasets and Raj Chetty's Opportunity Insights research to measure what traditional rankings ignore: whether a college actually changes a family's economic trajectory.
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