2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Interdisciplinary Studies in Florida

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 Florida” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Florida, there were 2,640 interdisciplinary studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,151 and $26,347 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 28 interdisciplinary studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,198 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interdisciplinary Studies Major in Florida” 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.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interdisciplinary Studies Major in Florida

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interdisciplinary Studies Major in Florida”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Interdisciplinary Studies in Florida

1

University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida

#5 overall quality in Florida

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Florida. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interdisciplinary Studies Major in Florida list. University of Central Florida is a large school located in Orlando, Florida that handed out 27 masters’s interdisciplinary studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Interdisciplinary Studies at University of Central Florida

2

Florida Institute of Technology
Melbourne, Florida

#7 overall quality in Florida

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida Institute of Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interdisciplinary Studies Major in Florida list. Florida Institute of Technology is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Melbourne, Florida. It awarded 1 masters’s interdisciplinary studies degrees in 2020-2021.

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3

Southeastern University
Lakeland, Florida

#11 overall quality in Florida

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southeastern University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Interdisciplinary Studies Major in Florida. Located in Lakeland, Florida, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s interdisciplinary studies students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Interdisciplinary Studies at SEU

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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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