ORONO — Through a partnership between the Maine Department of Education and the University of Maine System, tuition is waived for all qualified high school students in Maine to cover full tuition for up to 12 college credits per year.

Registration is open through Jan. 25, 2019 at https://umaine.edu/earlycollege/.

Starting Jan. 22, 2019 the University of Maine will offer spring courses suitable for rising high school juniors and seniors.

Early college courses are available at the University of Maine campus in Orono, the UMaine Hutchinson Center in Belfast, and online. For more information, contact Allison Small, Early College Programs coordinator, 581.8004; allison.small@maine.edu

Classes are taught by UMaine faculty and meet general education requirements of the University of Maine System, as well as the majority of colleges nationwide. Students across the state will benefit from the flexibility and variety of live (in Belfast and Orono) and online early college courses offered this spring semester.

More than 70 courses are available to qualified high school students in a variety of formats.

Courses are offered in the following disciplines:

Art History
Astronomy
Canadian Studies
Child Development and Family Relations
Communication and Journalism
English
Food Science and Nutrition

Geography
History
Leadership Studies
Mathematics
Maine Studies
Peace Studies

Political Science
Psychology
Spanish
Statistics
Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies

Courses at the Hutchinson Center are small, personal, taught by UMaine faculty and meet general education requirements of the University of Maine System, as well as the majority of colleges nationwide. Live courses offered for spring 2019 are:

BIO 122/123 General Biology/Lab

CHY 121/122 General Chemistry I/Lab

CMJ 103 Public Speaking

ENG 101 College Composition

ENG 317 Business & Technical Writing

HTY 103 Creating America to 1877

MAT 101 The Nature and Language of Mathematics

PSY 100 General Psychology

PSY 230 Social Psychology

THE 117 Fundamentals of Acting

Through a partnership between the Maine Department of Education and the University of Maine System, tuition will be waived for all qualified high school students to cover full tuition for up to 12 college credits per year. Priority is given to junior and senior students.

High school students who participate in early college courses are more likely to graduate from high school, attend and persist in college and achieve tuition savings that can lower student loan debt.

About the University of Maine:

The University of Maine, founded in Orono in 1865, is the state's land grant and sea grant university. As Maine's flagship public university, UMaine has a statewide mission of teaching, research and economic development, and community service. UMaine is among the most comprehensive higher education institutions in the Northeast and attracts students from Maine and 49 other states, and 67 countries. It currently enrolls 11,240 total undergraduate and graduate students who can directly participate in groundbreaking research working with world-class scholars.

The University of Maine offers 35 doctoral programs and master's degrees in 85 fields; more than 90 undergraduate majors and academic programs; and one of the oldest and most prestigious honors programs in the U.S., according to a news release. The university promotes environmental stewardship, with substantial efforts campuswide aimed at conserving energy, recycling and adhering to green building standards in new construction.