2023 Best Interdisciplinary Studies Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Maine
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When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Interdisciplinary Studies for a Bachelor’s” 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 Maine, there were 7 interdisciplinary studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $21,916 and $24,067 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 interdisciplinary studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,463 and $30,985 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality interdisciplinary studies programs as well as strong veteran support.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the interdisciplinary studies program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
More Ways to Rank Interdisciplinary Studies Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Interdisciplinary Studies for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Interdisciplinary Studies for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Interdisciplinary Studies for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Interdisciplinary Studies Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Maine
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colby College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Interdisciplinary Studies for a Bachelor’s list. Colby College is a small school located in Waterville, Maine that handed out 2 bachelors’s interdisciplinary studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Colby also took the #1 spot in our “Best Interdisciplinary Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 12 of the 2,155 students enrolled at Colby were GI Bill® students, of which 1 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $9,447. During this same period, 6 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% 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%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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