Office of Admissions

Facts

Our numbers

8,777: undergraduates

2,316: graduate students

16: percentage of out-of-state students

47/53: male-female student ratio

477: transfer students

352: international students

95,000: alumni

811: full- and part-time faculty

16:1: student-to-faculty ratio

20: average undergraduate class size

362: largest undergraduate class size

80: percentage of students receiving financial aid

1865: year UMaine was founded

48: number of states UMaine students represent

65: number of countries UMaine students represent

$218: undergraduate in-state tuition per credit hour in 2007

$625: undergraduate out-of-state tuition per credit hour in 2007

42: percentage of all undergraduate students living on campus

2,234: largest number of degrees conferred in an academic year (2006–07)
 

Our advantage

• One of The Princeton Review's best 368 colleges
• One of the top 100 public universities for research, with annual research expenditures of nearly $100 million (National Science Foundation)
• One of just 151 institutions classified as Doctoral/Research Universities – Extensive, the highest ranking possible (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching)
• Maine's largest university
• Maine's most comprehensive liberal arts and science-based research university with six colleges
• Home of the largest library in the state
• Maine's only Division 1 athletics program
• One of the best values in higher education