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2023 Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Associate Degree Schools in Maine

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$8,378 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$29,728 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Mental & Social Health Services Associate Degree School for You

Mental & Social Health Services is the #33 most popular major in Maine with 119 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Associate Degree Schools in Maine to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Maine to see which associate degree programs offered the best value experiences for mental health services students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Associate Degree Schools in Maine

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Associate Degree Colleges.

Best Maine Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Mental & Social Health Services

Our 2023 rankings named University of Maine at Augusta the best value school in Maine for mental and social health services students working on their associate degree. UMA is a small public school located in the distant town of Augusta.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UMA are $8,378 per year.

UMA did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Mental & Social Health Services Associate Degree Schools in Maine list.

Full Mental & Social Health Services at University of Maine at Augusta Report

#2

Beal College

Bangor, ME

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Beal College is a great value for mental and social health services students working on their associate degree. Located in the small city of Bangor, Beal College is a private for-profit college with a fairly small student population.

Beal College also took the #3 spot in our Best Mental & Social Health Services Associate Degree Schools in Maine rankings.

Read full report on Mental & Social Health Services at Beal College

Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Value Mental & Social Health Services Schools in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 829
Connecticut 288
New Hampshire 347
Rhode Island 81
Vermont 32

Mental & Social Health Services is one of 30 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592
Health & Medical Administrative Services 89,359
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274
Allied Health Professions 82,308

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • 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 the rest 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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