2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Individualized Studies in Montana

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In 2020-2021, 37,634 people earned their degree in individualized studies, making the major the 38th most popular in the United States.

Across Montana, there were 131 individualized studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 112 individualized studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,073 and $20,221 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in Montana” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in individualized studies. That schools that top this list have a program in individualized studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in Montana

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in Montana”.

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Individualized Studies in Montana

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Great Falls College Montana State University
Great Falls, Montana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Great Falls College Montana State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in Montana list. Located in Great Falls, Montana, this small public school awarded 81 degrees to qualified associates’s individualized studies students in 2020-2021.

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2

Montana State University - Northern
Havre, Montana

#9 overall quality in Montana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Montana State University - Northern. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in Montana. Montana State University - Northern is a small public school situated in Havre, Montana. It awarded 18 associates’s individualized studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Montana State University - Northern Individualized Studies Report

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The University of Montana
Missoula, Montana

#2 overall quality in Montana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Montana. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in Montana. UM is a fairly large public school situated in Missoula, Montana. It awarded 13 associates’s individualized studies degrees in 2020-2021.

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Little Big Horn College
Crow Agency, Montana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Little Big Horn College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in Montana list. Little Big Horn College is a small school located in Crow Agency, Montana that handed out 0 associates’s individualized studies degrees in 2020-2021.

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.