Mathematics at Maine Maritime Academy

Maine's mathematics programs span an enormous range—Bowdoin College graduates earn a reported $90,213 in their first year—making the estimated $48,772 for this program particularly striking. While Maine Maritime Academy is better known for engineering and marine sciences, similar mathematics programs nationally suggest graduates here start at roughly half what other Maine institutions report. The $21,500 in estimated debt is manageable on its own, creating a debt-to-earnings ratio of 0.44, but the earnings gap relative to state peers is hard to ignore.

The challenge is that we're working entirely with estimates here, drawn from national medians across hundreds of programs. Maine Maritime's unique focus—this is a specialized maritime academy, not a traditional liberal arts college—may mean its math graduates follow different career paths than those at larger or more conventional institutions. They might enter maritime industries, government positions, or specialized technical roles that don't immediately show strong first-year earnings but build over time.

For families considering this program, the lack of reported data itself tells a story: graduation cohorts are small enough that the Department of Education can't publish outcomes without risking individual privacy. That suggests limited program scale. Given the state's much higher benchmarks and the uncertainty around these estimates, you'd want to verify actual placement outcomes directly with the academy—specifically, where recent mathematics graduates actually work and what they earn within a few years of graduation.