Best Online Master’s Programs in Maine 2025

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Find the best online colleges in Maine ranked by the academic success of faculty and alumni associated with the colleges and universities and their online degree programs.

2025 Ranking Update

Our Influence Ranking Engine™ leverages machine learning to track the real-world influence of colleges and universities over time. Below you’ll see which schools gained or last ground for the 2025 school year.

In 2025, the only ranking changes that occured were Unity College and Husson University switching ranking positions.

Featured Programs

Best Online Master’s Program in Maine

  1. Other Rankings

    Tuition + fees

    $12K

    Acceptance

    94%

    Graduation

    55%

    Student body

    15K

    Median SAT/ACT

    1200/26

    Career Outlook for degree at University of Maine

    Cost of Degree: $10,446
    Expenses: $15,966
    Starting Salary: $48,300
    Cost Recoup Time: 7 years
    Paid back at 15% of annual salary

    Online Master’s Degrees

    Master of Business Administration (MBA)

    Concentrations

    • Accounting
    • Business Analytics
    • Finance
    • Healthcare Systems
    • Human Nutrition
    • Outdoor Industry Management
    • Public and Nonprofit Management
    • Sustainability
    • Required Credits: 30
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MS in Data Science and Engineering
    • Required Credits: 30
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MS in Information Systems
    • Required Credits: 30
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MEd in 4+1 Special Education
    • Required Credits: 33
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MEd in Curriculum, Assessment and Instruction
    • Required Credits: 33
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MEd in Instructional Technology
    • Required Credits: 33
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MAT in Secondary Education
    • Required Credits: 36
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MEd in Educational Leadership
    • Required Credits: 40
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MEd in Special Education

    Concentrations

    • High Incidence Disabilities
    • Low Incidence Disabilities
    • Dual Concentration in High and Low Incidence Disabilities
    • Early Intervention
    • Individualized Program
    • Required Credits: 33-45
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MA in Interdisciplinary Studies

    Concentrations

    • Peace and Reconciliation Studies
    • Required Credits: 30
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MSW in Social Work
    • Required Credits: 46-63
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MS in Food Science and Human Nutrition
    • Required Credits: 30
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    PSM in Bioinformatics
    • Required Credits: 30
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MS in Spatial Informatics
    • Required Credits: 30
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    PSM in Engineering and Business
    • Required Credits: 30
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
  2. Other Rankings

    Tuition + fees

    $10K

    Acceptance

    85%

    Graduation

    42%

    Student body

    10K

    Median SAT/ACT

    1109/22

    Career Outlook for degree at University of Southern Maine

    Cost of Degree: $9,594
    Expenses: $15,892
    Starting Salary: $44,400
    Cost Recoup Time: 7 years
    Paid back at 15% of annual salary

    Online Master’s Degrees

    MS in Cybersecurity
    • Required Credits: 30
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MS in Nursing (RN-to-MSN)

    Concentrations

    • Nursing Administration and Leadership
    • Nursing Education
    • Required Credits: 60
    • Completion time: 2 years
    • Format: Online
    MSEd in Teacher Leadership

    Concentrations

    • Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
    • Required Credits: 30
    • Completion time: 10 months
    • Format: Online
    MSEd in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
    • Required Credits: 30
    • Completion time: 10 months
    • Format: Online
    MEd in Instructional Technology
    • Required Credits: 33
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MS in Adult and Higher Education
    • Required Credits: 36
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MSEd in Educational Leadership
    • Required Credits: 36
    • Completion time: 14 months
    • Format: Online
    MS in Educational Psychology

    Concentrations

    • Applied Behavior Analysis
    • Required Credits: 36
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MS in Special Education

    Concentrations

    • In-Service
    • Pre-Service (Teaching Students With Mild to Moderate Disabilities)
    • Integrated General Education and Special Education Initial Teacher Certification
    • Effective Instruction and Assessment for Students with Suspected and Identified Disabilities
    • Required Credits: 51
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MA in Leadership Studies
    • Required Credits: 45
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MS in Nursing

    Concentrations

    • Nursing Administration and Leadership
    • Nursing Education
    • Required Credits: 36
    • Completion time: 18 months
    • Format: Online
  3. Tuition + fees

    $41K

    Acceptance

    96%

    Graduation

    59%

    Student body

    10K

    Career Outlook for degree at University of New England

    Cost of Degree: $32,175
    Expenses: $21,140
    Starting Salary: $51,000
    Cost Recoup Time: 11 years
    Paid back at 15% of annual salary

    Online Master’s Degrees

    MSEd in Education
    • Required Credits: 30
    • Completion time: 2 years
    • Format: Online
    MSED-RS in Education

    Concentrations

    • Reading Specialist
    • Required Credits: 36
    • Completion time: 2 years
    • Format: Online
    MSW in Social Work
    • Required Credits: 64
    • Completion time: 3 years
    • Format: Online
    MSAN in Applied Nutrition
    • Required Credits: 36
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MS in Health Informatics
    • Required Credits: 36
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MPH in Public Health
    • Required Credits: 46
    • Completion time: 18 months
    • Format: Online
    MHA in Healthcare Administration
    • Required Credits: None Reported
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    PMC in Post Master’S Certificate

    Concentrations

    • Curriculum and Instructional Strategies
    • Literacy K-12
    • Inclusion Education
    • Educational Leadership
    • Individualized
    • Required Credits: 15
    • Completion time: 1 year
    • Format: Online
  4. #4

    Husson University

    Bangor , ME

    Tuition + fees

    $21K

    Acceptance

    91%

    Graduation

    60%

    Student body

    4K

    Online Master’s Degrees

    Master of Business Administration (MBA)

    Concentrations

    • Innovation and Entrepreneurship
    • Organizational Management
    • Risk Management
    • Healthcare Management
    • Required Credits: 36
    • Completion time: 1-2 years
    • Format: Online
    MPH in Public Health
    • Required Credits: 12
    • Completion time: 1 year
    • Format: Online
  5. #5

    Thomas College

    Waterville , ME
    Other Rankings

    Tuition + fees

    $30K

    Acceptance

    97%

    Graduation

    50%

    Student body

    2K

    Career Outlook for degree at Thomas College

    Cost of Degree: $30,896
    Expenses: $17,378
    Starting Salary: $43,400
    Cost Recoup Time: 11 years
    Paid back at 15% of annual salary

    Online Master’s Degrees

    Master of Business Administration (MBA)

    Concentrations

    • Human Resources
    • Project Management
    • Healthcare Management
    • Required Credits: 36
    • Completion time: 1-2 years
    • Format: Online
    MS in Criminology
    • Required Credits: 30
    • Completion time: 1-2 years
    • Format: Online
    MS in Cybersecurity
    • Required Credits: 30
    • Completion time: 1-2 years
    • Format: Online
  6. Other Rankings

    Tuition + fees

    $42K

    Acceptance

    81%

    Graduation

    70%

    Student body

    2K

    Career Outlook for degree at Saint Joseph's College of Maine

    Cost of Degree: $9,630
    Expenses: $17,836
    Starting Salary: $47,000
    Cost Recoup Time: 7 years
    Paid back at 15% of annual salary

    Online Master’s Degrees

    MAcc in Accountancy
    • Required Credits: None Reported
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    Master of Business Administration (MBA)

    Concentrations

    • General
    • Leadership
    • Required Credits: None Reported
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MSED in Education
    • Required Credits: None Reported
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MDiv in Divinity
    • Required Credits: None Reported
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MA in Theology

    Concentrations

    • Advanced Diaconal Studies
    • Pastoral Theology
    • Sacred Theology
    • Required Credits: None Reported
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MHA in Health Administration

    Concentrations

    • Catholic Health Leadership
    • Required Credits: None Reported
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MS in Nursing (MSN)

    Concentrations

    • Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
    • Family Nurse Practitioner
    • Administration
    • Education
    • Required Credits: None Reported
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MSN/MBA in Nursing and Business Administration
    • Required Credits: None Reported
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MSN/MHA in Nursing and Health Administration
    • Required Credits: None Reported
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
  7. #7

    Unity Environmental University

    New Gloucester , ME
    Other Rankings

    Tuition + fees

    $13K

    Acceptance

    94%

    Graduation

    53%

    Student body

    5K

    Career Outlook for degree at Unity Environmental University

    Cost of Degree: $9,750
    Expenses: $14,236
    Starting Salary: $37,400
    Cost Recoup Time: 7 years
    Paid back at 15% of annual salary

    Online Master’s Degrees

    MS in Urban Ecology and Sustainable Planning
    • Required Credits: 30
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MS in Animal Science and Behavior
    • Required Credits: 30
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MS in Environmental Geographic Information Science
    • Required Credits: 30
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MS in Environmental Science
    • Required Credits: 30
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MS in Environmental Studies and Sustainability
    • Required Credits: 30
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MS in Marine Science
    • Required Credits: 30
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MS in Wildlife Conservation and Management
    • Required Credits: 30
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online
    MBA in Sustainable Business Management
    • Required Credits: 30
    • Completion time: 2-3 years
    • Format: Online

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