2022 Best Value Colleges for Interdisciplinary Studies in Maryland (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Interdisciplinary Studies Schools in Maryland For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 8,442 people earned their degree in interdisciplinary studies, making the major the 109th most popular in the United States. 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 Maryland, there were 20 interdisciplinary studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $19,905 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Interdisciplinary Studies Schools in Maryland For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Interdisciplinary Studies Schools in Maryland For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Interdisciplinary Studies in Maryland (With Aid)

#1

Towson University

Towson, Maryland

#1 in overall quality

$18,233 Average Net Price

$43,925 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Interdisciplinary Studies Schools in Maryland For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Towson University landed the #1 spot on the list. Towson University is a large school located in Towson, Maryland that handed out 17 ’s interdisciplinary studies degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Towson, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Interdisciplinary Studies Schools in Maryland” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Towson is $18,233 for Maryland Interdisciplinary Studies students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Interdisciplinary Studies at Towson University

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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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