by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Interdisciplinary Studies Major in Rhode Island” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Interdisciplinary Studies is the 86th most popular major in the country with 9,074 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, interdisciplinary studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $32,077 and had an average of $27,069 in loans still to pay off.
Across Rhode Island, there were 31 interdisciplinary studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 26 interdisciplinary studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,833 and $24,930 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Interdisciplinary Studies Major in Rhode Island” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in interdisciplinary studies. That schools that top this list have a program in interdisciplinary studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Interdisciplinary Studies Major in Rhode Island” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Interdisciplinary Studies Major in Rhode Island”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rhode Island College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Interdisciplinary Studies Major in Rhode Island. RIC is a medium-sized school located in Providence, Rhode Island that handed out 10 bachelors’s interdisciplinary studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Interdisciplinary Studies at Rhode Island College
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Interdisciplinary Studies Major in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, Brown University landed the #2 spot on the list. Brown University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Providence, Rhode Island. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Interdisciplinary Studies Major in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, Johnson & Wales University - Providence landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s interdisciplinary studies students in 2020-2021.
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