If you plan on getting your master's degree in other multi/interdisciplinary studies, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #77 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 5 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for other multi/interdisciplinary studies students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 227 master's degrees in other multi/interdisciplinary studies during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of other multi/interdisciplinary studies for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality other interdisciplinary studies program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master'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 other multi/interdisciplinary studies students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of other multi/interdisciplinary studies students who choose to seek a master'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 other multi/interdisciplinary studies to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized other multi/interdisciplinary studies related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for other multi/interdisciplinary studies students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Other Multi/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 Best Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Liberty University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in other multi/interdisciplinary studies. Located in the small city of Lynchburg, Liberty University is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.
Master's graduates who receive their degree from the other interdisciplinary studies program make about $50,214 in the first couple years of their career.
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).