2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies (Income $48-$75k) in Maine

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Individualized Major Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies is the 120th most popular major in the country with 8,442 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Maine, there were 19 general multi-/interdisciplinary studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 general multi-/interdisciplinary studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,256 and $26,111 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general multi-/interdisciplinary studies programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general multi-/interdisciplinary studies program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Individualized Major Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Individualized Major Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies (Income $48-$75k) in Maine

#1

Colby College

Waterville, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$5,107 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colby College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Individualized Major Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k list. Waterville, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s individualized major degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

Colby also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Colby College is $5,107 for Maine Bachelor’s Degree Individualized Major students whose families make $48-$75k.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The low student loan default rate of 3.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies at Colby College

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies (Income $48-$75k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies (Income $48-$75k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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