College profile
University of Southern Maine
ME · Public · Small city · 5,823 applicants 2023
A parent's read
- Top feeder high schools: Waynflete School (0.6), Episcopal School of Jacksonville (0.2), Tilton School (0.2). Graduates per class year, from each high school's own published list. 3 high schools' lists name University of Southern Maine; every one is ranked below.
- The payoff holds even at full price: roughly 5× over a decade. With no aid at all — the full in-state ~$23,717/yr — a decade of median earnings (~$49,958/yr) still runs about 5× the four-year cost. This payoff doesn't depend on qualifying for anything. (Out-of-state costs more.)
- Worth asking: do students finish? Only 40% graduate within six years here — the standard federal measure. Ask what drives that: course availability, transfers out, students working long hours. Not finishing is the costliest outcome there is.
Composed from this page's data — every claim is backed by a number in the sections below.
Feeder high schools
Which high schools send graduates to University of Southern Maine?
The high schools sending the most graduates per class year to University of Southern Maine, from each school's own published list: Waynflete School (0.6), Episcopal School of Jacksonville (0.2), Tilton School (0.2). 3 high schools' lists name University of Southern Maine.
All 3 schools, with the class years each list covers
How this is counted
3 high schools publish a numbered matriculation list — where their graduates actually enrolled, counted, in the school's own School Profile — and name University of Southern Maine on it. Between them they printed 5 enrolled graduates. Ranked by graduates per class year enrolling at University of Southern Maine, from each school's own published list: the number that school printed, divided by the class years its list covers. The published total and the school's own years label are shown beside every school, so a one-year list and a five-year list can sit on the same page. A list whose class years we cannot read is not divided by a guess — it is listed below with its total instead.
Is my high school on this list?
All 3 feeder schools, ranked →
Counted from each school's own published document, linked on that school's page. A high school that is not here does not publish a numbered list we could read — that is all absence means, and it says nothing about its graduates. Where a school publishes both, the two lists are shown separately: an acceptances list is not a list of enrollments, and the two are never added together.
Parent/student verdict
AccessibleAccessible for most applicants. Affordable — net price averages ~$13,596/yr among aid recipients. Major value play for in-state residents.
Best for
- In-state residents (tuition ~$11,284 — major value play)
- Students drawn to Health Professions or Business, Management, & Marketing (the two biggest majors)
The reality
- You'd be near the bottom of their admitted class if: SAT below 995, or ACT below 23 (test bands are the school's own; the GPA floor is our estimate, not a published figure)
Verdict is composed from this college's structured data (admit rate, SAT bands, net price with aid and at full price, Carnegie classification, scholarship grids) using transparent rule thresholds — not a chat-bot's opinion.
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Institutional snapshot
What kind of college is this?
Source: federal IPEDS Admissions 2023 for scores + admit rate; federal College Scorecard (20260606 vintage) for earnings + outcomes. SAT/ACT bands are the 25th–75th percentile of enrolled submitters.
Outcomes & cost
What graduates actually earn, finish, and owe.
Federal College Scorecard data. Earnings are median annual income measured years after entering. Debt is for federal-aid borrowers only (cash-pay students aren't counted).
The real cost
What University of Southern Maine actually costs
Which side your family lands on isn't set by any national income line — it's set by University of Southern Maine's own aid decision: the gap between its price and your family's finances.
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The payoffTen years of typical graduate pay minus four years of cost — how many dollars ahead a typical graduate runs by year ten. Check both the full-price and with-aid versions to see which applies to you; median pay reflects who a college admits and what they study as much as the college itself., both ways
+$405K ahead at full price +$445K with aidSource: College Scorecard (average net price among Title IV first-time, full-time undergraduates who received aid) and each college's published cost of attendance. We don't show the federal net-price-by-income brackets: their categories were fixed in 2008 and never adjusted, and none of the averages is your family's own number — the full story. Payoff = (10-yr median earnings × 10) − (4 years of cost), in dollars — how far ahead a typical graduate runs by year ten; medians travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college itself. Full price is the published cost of attendance, largely in-state for publics; earnings are 10 years after enrollment, all majors combined.
What students study here
Most popular majors at University of Southern Maine
Top 5 fields of study by bachelor's degrees awarded (most recent IPEDS Completions). Use this to see what University of Southern Maine actually graduates — not just what it markets.
What those majors earn here
Median earnings 4 years after entry, by major — University of Southern Maine's own graduates, not national averages.
| Major (CIP) | 4-yr earnings |
|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering. | $88,515 |
| Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management. | $79,352 |
| Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians. | $77,734 |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | $75,465 |
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | $73,068 |
| Accounting and Related Services. | $71,945 |
| Political Science and Government. | $65,836 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | $65,230 |
| Natural Resources Conservation and Research. | $60,665 |
| Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness. | $60,086 |
Sources: IPEDS Completions (C2023_a; bachelor's-level first majors, 2-digit CIP family — share is of the top 5 only) · College Scorecard program-level outcomes (PP-FOS). Full college-vs-major comparison: /college-outcomes →
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At a glance
JSON · Using this page with an AI assistantUniversity of Southern Maine is a public four-year college in ME. It admitted 79% of applicants (5,823 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-blind.
Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test: SAT 995–1280, ACT 23–26.
Cost: about $13,596 a year on average with aid, $23,717 a year at full price for in-state students.
Median earnings ten years after entry: $49,958 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $445,196 ahead with aid, $404,712 ahead at full price.
Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Mechanical Engineering ($88,515); Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management ($79,352); Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians ($77,734).
High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name University of Southern Maine: 3, 5 enrolled students between them — ranked by graduates per class year, most often Waynflete School (0.6 per class year, 3 over 5 class years, Five-Year Matriculation (2021–2025)); Episcopal School of Jacksonville (0.2 per class year, 1 over 4 class years, Classes of 2023-2026); Tilton School (0.2 per class year, 1 over 5 class years, 2019-2023). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/university-of-southern-maine.
Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/university-of-southern-maine.json
Questions families ask
What is University of Southern Maine's acceptance rate? University of Southern Maine is a public four-year college in ME. It admitted 79% of applicants (5,823 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-blind.
Does University of Southern Maine require the SAT or ACT? University of Southern Maine is a public four-year college in ME. It admitted 79% of applicants (5,823 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-blind.
What SAT or ACT scores do University of Southern Maine students have? Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test: SAT 995–1280, ACT 23–26.
How much does University of Southern Maine cost? Cost: about $13,596 a year on average with aid, $23,717 a year at full price for in-state students.
What do University of Southern Maine graduates earn? Median earnings ten years after entry: $49,958 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $445,196 ahead with aid, $404,712 ahead at full price.
Which majors at University of Southern Maine pay the most? Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Mechanical Engineering ($88,515); Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management ($79,352); Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians ($77,734).
Which high schools send the most graduates to University of Southern Maine? The high schools sending the most graduates per class year to University of Southern Maine, from each school's own published list: Waynflete School (0.6), Episcopal School of Jacksonville (0.2), Tilton School (0.2). 3 high schools' lists name University of Southern Maine.
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