Maine College of Health Professions Overview

Located in Lewiston, Maine, Maine College of Health Professions is a private not-for-profit institution. The location of MCHP is great for students who prefer living in an urban area.

What Is Maine College of Health Professions Known For?

• Students at MCHP may have an easier time interacting with their teachers since the student to faculty ratio at the school is 8 to 1.
• The highest award offered at MCHP is the bachelor's degree.
• For the 2017-2018 academic year, 32% of the faculty were full-time.
• A student who earns a bachelor's degree from MCHP makes roughly $49,000 a year. This is 20% more than their peers from other colleges and universities.

Maine College of Health Professions Rankings

These rankings may look different from those published by other outlets, because we use an outcomes-based approach rather than a subjective one. We get our data from a number of places, including the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the College Scorecard. For more information, check out our rankings and methodology page.

Program Level Awards

These are highlights of some of the most noteworthy awards granted to specific programs at MCHP.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#24	Best Allied Health Professions Associate Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#32	Best Nursing Associate Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#38	Best Value Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#69	Best Health Professions Associate Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#70	Best Value Health Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#127	Best Nursing & Nursing Assistants Undergraduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Awards From Around the Web

The following table lists some notable awards MCHP has earned from around the web.

Rank	Ranking Name	Source
#35	Best Radiologic Technology Schools	College Factual
#76	Best Nursing Associate Degree Schools	College Factual
#92	Best Health Professions Associate Degree Schools	College Factual
#180	Best Allied Health Professions Schools	College Factual
#217	Best Value Colleges for Health Professions	College Factual
#254	Best Registered Nursing Schools	College Factual

Where Is Maine College of Health Professions?

Contact details for MCHP are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	70 Middle Street, Lewiston, ME 04240
Phone:	207-795-2840

Admission Requirements for MCHP

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	recommended
High School Rank	recommended
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	recommended
Recommendations	neither required nor recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	considered but not required
TOEFL	neither required nor recommended

How Hard Is It To Get Into MCHP?

The acceptance rate of Maine College of Health Professions is 45%. While it may not be as selective as some schools, it does screen its applicants very carefully. Do what you can to stand out among others in the pool of applicants!

Approximately 22% of accepted students are men and 78% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 100%, and the acceptance rate for women is 39%.

Average Test Scores

About 100% of students accepted to MCHP submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 450 and 580. Math scores were between 430 and 490.

MCHP received ACT scores from 0% of accepted students.

Can I Afford Maine College of Health Professions?

Student Loan Debt

While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At MCHP, approximately 50% of students took out student loans averaging $4,634 a year. That adds up to $18,536 over four years for those students.

Maine College of Health Professions Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 216 undergraduate students at MCHP, with 69 being full-time and 147 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 69 full-time undergraduates at MCHP, 6% are male and 94% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Maine College of Health Professions students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	64
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Online Learning at Maine College of Health Professions

In 2019-2020, 216 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at MCHP has changed over the last few years.

Online Growth Rankings of MCHP

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Maine College of Health Professions was 450.0%. This is the #172 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at MCHP regardless of major.

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at MCHP ranks compared to all other partially online schools that offer a specific major. Note that the majors may or may not be offered online at MCHP.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Nursing	#19
Health Professions	#79

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

Maine College of Health Professions Undergraduate Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Associate’s	Undergraduate Certificate	Bachelor’s	TOTAL
Nursing	39	0	3	42
Allied Health Professions	21	0	0	21
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants	0	7	0	7
TOTAL	60	7	3	70

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics

More about our data sources and methodologies.