2024 Best Value Colleges for General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies in Maine
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$19,600
Avg Net Price*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Individualized Major Schools in Maine” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 9,057 people earned their degree in general multi-/interdisciplinary studies, making the major the 94th most popular in the United States.
Across Maine, there were 7 general multi-/interdisciplinary studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value Individualized Major Schools in Maine
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Individualized Major Schools in Maine.
Top 1 Best Value Colleges for General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies in Maine
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Colby College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Individualized Major Schools in Maine. Located in Waterville, Maine, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 2 diplomas to qualified ’s individualized major students in 2020-2021.
Colby not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $19,597 for maine individualized major students per year to attend Colby College.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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
- *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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