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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 371 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
