2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Major Major in Illinois

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Major Major in Illinois” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Illinois, there were 67 general multi-/interdisciplinary studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 56 general multi-/interdisciplinary studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,117 and $25,584 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Major Major in Illinois” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in general multi-/interdisciplinary studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general multi-/interdisciplinary studies.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Major Major in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Major Major in Illinois”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies in Illinois

1

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Edwardsville, Illinois

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Major Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville landed the #1 spot on the list. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is located in Edwardsville, Illinois and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 49 bachelors’s individualized major degrees to qualified students.

Read more about General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

2

Olivet Nazarene University
Bourbonnais, Illinois

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Olivet Nazarene University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Major Major in Illinois. Olivet Nazarene University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Bourbonnais, Illinois. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies at Olivet Nazarene University

3

Western Illinois University
Macomb, Illinois

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Major Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Illinois University landed the #3 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Macomb, Illinois, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s individualized major degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Western Illinois University General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies in the Great Lakes Region
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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.

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