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2022 Best Value Individualized Major Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas

6 Ranked Colleges
413 Degrees Awarded
$16,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Individualized Major Schools for a Bachelor's in Texas

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Individualized Major Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas” ranking - to help you make that 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 Texas, there were 624 general multi-/interdisciplinary studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 413 general multi-/interdisciplinary studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Individualized Major Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in general multi-/interdisciplinary studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general multi-/interdisciplinary studies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general multi-/interdisciplinary studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

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

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies in Texas

#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Individualized Major Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas list. This large school is located in Edinburg, Texas, and it awarded 65 bachelors’s individualized major degrees in 2019-2020.

UT Rio Grande Valley did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” list. The yearly cost to attend The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is $4,514 for Texas Bachelor’s Degree Individualized Major students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies Report

#3 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Individualized Major Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at El Paso landed the #2 spot on the list. UTEP is a public institution located in El Paso, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 253 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our texas bachelor’s degree individualized major students list, UTEP has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking. The yearly cost to attend The University of Texas at El Paso is $8,920 for texas bachelor’s degree individualized major students.

Full UTEP General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies Report

#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Stephen F Austin State University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Individualized Major Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas list. This fairly large school is located in Nacogdoches, Texas, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s individualized major degrees in 2019-2020.

SFASU also took the #5 spot in our “Best General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking. The yearly cost to attend SFASU is $13,723 for texas bachelor’s degree individualized major students.

Full Stephen F Austin State University General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies Report

#4

Wiley College

Marshall, Texas
#6 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Individualized Major Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Wiley College landed the #4 spot on the list. Marshall, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s individualized major degrees to 19 students in 2019-2020.

Wiley College also made our “Best General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” list, coming in at #6. The yearly cost to attend Wiley College is $17,666 for texas bachelor’s degree individualized major students.

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

#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Houston Baptist University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Individualized Major Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas list. This small school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 26 bachelors’s individualized major degrees in 2019-2020.

HBU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” list. The yearly cost to attend Houston Baptist University is $19,962 for texas bachelor’s degree individualized major students.

Read full report on General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies at HBU

#6

Baylor University

Waco, Texas
#1 in overall quality

Baylor University did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Individualized Major Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas ranking, coming in at #6. Located in Waco, Texas, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 34 degrees to qualified bachelors’s individualized major students in 2019-2020.

Baylor also made our “Best General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $36,039 for Texas Bachelor’s Degree Individualized Major students per year to attend Baylor University.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies at Baylor

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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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