2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies in Maryland

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General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies is the 94th most popular major in the country with 9,057 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Maryland, there were 24 general multi-/interdisciplinary studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 general multi-/interdisciplinary studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,642 and $26,517 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Major Major in Maryland” ranking, we looked at 2 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.

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

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies in Maryland

1

Towson University
Towson, Maryland

#4 overall quality in Maryland

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Towson University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Major Major in Maryland. Located in Towson, Maryland, this large public school awarded 17 degrees to qualified bachelors’s individualized major students 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies at Towson University

2

Mount St Mary's University
Emmitsburg, Maryland

#13 overall quality in Maryland

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Major Major in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, Mount St Mary’s University landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Emmitsburg, Maryland, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s individualized major degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 5.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies at The Mount

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies

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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