-18%
University of Maine at Augusta · Public bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at University of Maine at Augusta are 18% below the public bachelor's-predominant peer median ($40.3k vs $49.3k).
State hub · Maine · vintage 2025-05
Maine Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in Maine — and every program where federal data is published. Sourced from College Scorecard, IPEDS, and Treasury tax records.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags across Maine
Top signals rolled up across Maineinstitutions — a mix of warnings and improvements, alternating so the page isn't skewed in either direction. Detectors: short-arc shift (recent 3-year window), earnings trend, peer outlier, completion drop, enrollment cliff, and debt-to-earnings warning. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section.
-17%
University of Maine at Presque Isle · Public bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at University of Maine at Presque Isle are 17% below the public bachelor's-predominant peer median ($41.0k vs $49.3k).
-15%
Kennebec Valley Community College · Public associate's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Kennebec Valley Community College are 15% below the public associate's-predominant peer median ($36.0k vs $42.4k).
+91%
The Landing School · Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at The Landing School rose 91% between 2006 and 2009 ($4.3k → $8.2k).
-71%
York County Community College · 150%-time completion
150%-time completion at York County Community College fell 71% between 2006 and 2009 (17.4% → 5.1%).
-62%
Northeast Technical Institute · Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Northeast Technical Institute fell 62% between 2021 and 2024 (197 → 74).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across Maine Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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Title-IV main campuses1,335
with published outcomes$44,433
across institutions56.4%
median across institutions55,272
latest historical vintage$12,983
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How Maine has shifted
Federally available history. Sparkline coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Statewide undergraduate enrollment, all Title-IV institutions.
Median completion rate within 150% of expected time.
+45%
Statewide · undergrad enrollment rose
37,989 → 55,272
+196%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$4,383 → $12,983
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
16 institutions with 1,000+ undergrads, ranked by 10-year earnings
Click any column header to sort. Click any row for the full institution page. Heat-shading runs against the displayed values; em-dash means the cell was suppressed by federal privacy rules. Institutions with fewer than 1,000undergrads are filtered out here — small specialty schools (cosmetology, barbering, single-credential institutes) arithmetically dominate the extremes on every metric and aren't comparable to larger schools.
Showing 16 of 33 Title-IV institutions · Public 14 · Private 14 · For-profit 5
SECTION 04 · TOP BY EARNINGS
Highest 10-year median earnings
Treasury earnings, 10 years after entry. Includes non-completers and out-of-state movers in the cohort.
SECTION 05 · TOP BY COMPLETION
Highest 150%-time completion
Share of first-time, full-time freshmen who complete within 150% of expected time (IPEDS GR). Filtered to institutions with more than 1,000undergrads — tiny cohorts skew toward 100% and aren't comparable to larger schools.
BY CITY
All 24 Maine cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
METHODOLOGY
What these numbers are — and aren't
Earnings are median tax-record earnings for federally aided students, 4–10 years after first enrollment. They describe cohorts, not future outcomes — and they include non-completers and out-of-state movers. Selection bias is real: high-earning programs may attract higher-earning students. We surface descriptive numbers, not causal claims.