According to the United States of America of America News Best Graduate Nursing Program ranking, University of Southern Maine is ranked 95th nationally, piece the University of Maine–Orono is ranked 141st inwards the country.
University of Maine at Farmington (UMF) has been ranked equally 1 of the tiptop schools inwards the liberal arts in addition to comprehensive college categories. It is ranked No. two inwards "Top Public Comprehensive Colleges-Bachelor's, inwards the North" inwards the 2007 edition of the U.S.News & World Report "America's Best Colleges".
Bates College Wins "Hottest College" alongside those that Do Not Require SAT or ACT inwards the Newsweek/Kaplan college guide.
College of the Atlantic is ranked highly for its academic program, environmental commitment, multifariousness of pupil body, generous fiscal assist packages, campus beauty, in addition to food.
Saint Joseph's College of Maine is a Catholic liberal arts college. It began offering distance teaching programs inwards 1976. The Division of Graduate & Professional Studies offers its distance programs nationally in addition to internationally.
Unity College receives national recognition for community service. It has been named to the 2009 President's Honor Roll.
List of major colleges in addition to universities inwards Maine:
- Andover College
- Bates College
- Beal College
- Bowdoin College
- Bangor Theological Seminary
- Central Maine Community College
- Colby College
- College of the Atlantic
- Eastern Maine Community College
- Husson University
- Kennebec Valley Community College
- Maine College of Art
- Maine Maritime Academy
- New England School of Communications
- Northern Maine Community College
- Saint Joseph's College
- Southern Maine Community College
- Thomas College
- Unity College
- University of New England
- University of Southern Maine
- University of Maine System
- Washington County Community College
- York County Community College