Maine Maritime Academy Overview

Located in Castine, Maine, Maine Maritime Academy is a public institution. Students who love country life may enjoy the rural location of Maine Maritime.

What Is Maine Maritime Academy Known For?

• Students at Maine Maritime may have an easier time interacting with their teachers since the student to faculty ratio at the school is 9 to 1.
• The 2% student loan default rate at Maine Maritime is better than the national rate of 10.1%. That's a good sign that you may be able to pay off student loans easier than your peers at other schools can.
• Although it may not be available for every major, the master's degree is the highest award a student can attain at Maine Maritime.
• In <nil>, 72% of the faculty were full-time.
• A student who earns a bachelor's degree from Maine Maritime makes roughly $85,452 a year. This is 109% more than their peers from other colleges and universities.

Where Is Maine Maritime Academy?

Contact details for Maine Maritime are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	1 Pleasant Street, Castine, ME 04420-0001
Phone:	800-464-6565
Website:	mainemaritime.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/Maine.Maritime.Academy
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/Maine_Maritime

How Do I Get Into Maine Maritime?

You can apply to Maine Maritime online at: https://mainemaritime.edu/admissions/undergraduate-admissions/applicant-information/

Admission Requirements for Maine Maritime

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	Required
High School Rank	Neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript	Required
College Prep Program	Neither required nor recommended
Recommendations	Required
SAT or ACT Scores	Recommended
TOEFL	Required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Maine Maritime?

With an acceptance rate of 58%, Maine Maritime does not let just anybody through their doors! Make sure you spend enough time polishing up your application so you will make a great impression.

Approximately 78% of accepted students are men and 22% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 59%, and the acceptance rate for women is 54%.

Can I Afford Maine Maritime Academy?

The overall average net price of Maine Maritime is $31,626. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At Maine Maritime, approximately 91% of students took out student loans averaging $12,778 a year. That adds up to $51,112 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Maine Maritime is 1.8%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

Maine Maritime Academy Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 871 undergraduate students at Maine Maritime, with 832 being full-time and 39 being part-time.

There are also 17 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 832 full-time undergraduates at Maine Maritime, 81% are male and 19% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Maine Maritime Academy students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	14
Black or African American	16
Hispanic or Latino	45
White	687
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	65

Geographic Diversity

Maine students aren't the only ones who study at Maine Maritime Academy. At this time, 24 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 6 countries are represented at Maine Maritime. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Russia, Turkey, and China.

Online Learning at Maine Maritime Academy

In 2020-2021, 161 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 13th most popular in Maine for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of Maine Maritime

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Maine Maritime Academy was -4.2%. This is the #1,915 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Maine Maritime regardless of major.

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%.

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
• Image Credit: By Billy Hathorn under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.