2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interdisciplinary Studies Major in the New England Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interdisciplinary Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 9,074 people earned their degree in interdisciplinary studies, making the major the 86th most popular in the United States. 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 the New England region, there were 459 interdisciplinary studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,303 and $25,689 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 interdisciplinary studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interdisciplinary Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in interdisciplinary studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their interdisciplinary studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interdisciplinary Studies Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree interdisciplinary studies students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Interdisciplinary Studies in the New England Region

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Antioch University - New England
Keene, New Hampshire

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Antioch University - New England. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interdisciplinary Studies Major in the New England Region list. Antioch University - New England is a private not-for-profit institution located in Keene, New Hampshire. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Antioch University - New England Interdisciplinary Studies Report

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Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

#2 overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brown University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interdisciplinary Studies Major in the New England Region. Providence, Rhode Island is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s interdisciplinary studies degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. 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%.

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Rhode Island College
Providence, Rhode Island

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rhode Island College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interdisciplinary Studies Major in the New England Region. Rhode Island College is a medium-sized public school situated in Providence, Rhode Island. It awarded 1 masters’s interdisciplinary studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Interdisciplinary Studies at Rhode Island College

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for 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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