Best Interdisciplinary Studies Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the United States

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the United States that made our Best Interdisciplinary Studies Doctor's Degree Schools list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Interdisciplinary Studies School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of interdisciplinary studies for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality interdisciplinary studies program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on interdisciplinary studies students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of interdisciplinary studies students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for interdisciplinary studies to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized interdisciplinary studies related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for interdisciplinary studies students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the United States

On account of missing data, we were not able to show you the interdisciplinary studies quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the United States that both offer interdisciplinary studies and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

Interdisciplinary Studies by Region

View the Best Interdisciplinary Studies Doctor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Rankings in Majors Related to Interdisciplinary Studies

One of 51 majors within the Multi / Interdisciplinary Studies area of study, Interdisciplinary Studies has other similar majors worth exploring.

Interdisciplinary Studies Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies	71

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies	196
Nutrition Science	178
Behavioral Science	150
Computational Science	91
Biological & Physical Science	83
Cognitive Science	76
Geography and Environmental Studies	52
Sustainability Science	50
Systems Theory	41
Cultural Studies & Analysis	29

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to UTDallas. More about our data sources and methodologies.