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2022 Best Value Interdisciplinary Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid

1 Ranked Colleges
19 Degrees Awarded
$17,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Interdisciplinary Studies Schools for a Bachelor's in Maine For Those Getting Aid

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 Interdisciplinary Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Interdisciplinary Studies is the 109th most popular major in the country with 8,442 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, interdisciplinary studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $31,088 and had an average of $25,192 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 19 interdisciplinary studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $16,900 and $23,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 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 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 interdisciplinary studies program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Interdisciplinary Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Interdisciplinary Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Interdisciplinary Studies in Maine (With Aid)

#1

Colby College

Waterville, Maine
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Interdisciplinary Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maine For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Colby College landed the #1 spot on the list. Colby is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Waterville, Maine. It awarded 9 bachelors’s interdisciplinary studies degrees in 2019-2020.

Colby also took the #1 spot in our “Best Interdisciplinary Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Colby is $17,777 for maine bachelor’s degree interdisciplinary studies students with aid.

With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. 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%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

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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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