Benefits of Flagship Match Program touted in BDN article
The Bangor Daily News ran a story about the University of Maine Flagship Match Program that helped bring in 2,447 first-year students for the fall 2016 semester, compared with 2,012 a year ago. Of those students who indicated they’d be attending in fall 2016, 1,123 are from outside the state, according to the report, compared to 731 a year ago.
The Flagship Match Program allows qualified students from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and New Jersey to pay the same tuition and fees to attend UMaine as they would to attend their own state’s flagship campus. The article indicated a side benefit could be young, educated people may choose to stay in Maine and work after college.
“We really need an educated workforce, and we need to add people to the state in order to have a vibrant economy,” President Susan Hunter was quoted as saying in the article.