University of Maine is a public institution that was founded in 1862. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 8,778, its setting is rural, and the campus size is 660 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. University of Maine's ranking in the 2014 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 167.

Located on the banks of the Stillwater River in the town of Orono, the University of Maine campus is about 60 miles from the Atlantic coast and approximately 100 miles from the Canadian border.