2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies in Maine

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Individualized Major Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 8,442 people earned their degree in general multi-/interdisciplinary studies, making the major the 120th most popular in the United States.

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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general multi-/interdisciplinary studies program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Individualized Major Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Individualized Major Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Individualized Major Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies in Maine

#1

Colby College

Waterville, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,777 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 list. Located in Waterville, Maine, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 9 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s individualized major students in 2019-2020.

Colby did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. The yearly cost to attend Colby College is $17,777 for maine bachelor’s degree individualized major students.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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

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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

• *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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