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 8 schools in Texas to determine which ones were the best for other multi/interdisciplinary studies students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 316 master's degrees in other multi/interdisciplinary studies to qualified students.
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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 full 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
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies Master's Degree Schools in Texas ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Texas Tech University is a wonderful choice for students pursuing a master's degree in other multi/interdisciplinary studies. Texas Tech is a very large public university located in the large city of Lubbock.
Master's graduates who receive their degree from the other interdisciplinary studies program earn around $43,550 for their early career.
University of North Texas is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in other multi/interdisciplinary studies. Located in the city of Denton, UNT is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Master's students who receive their degree from the other interdisciplinary studies program earn an average of $53,790 for their early career.
DBU is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Dallas.
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies master's degree recipients from Dallas Baptist University receive an earnings boost of approximately $3,555 over the average earnings of other multi/interdisciplinary studies graduates.
Located in the small city of San Marcos, Texas State is a public university with a very large student population.
Students who graduate with their master's from the other interdisciplinary studies program state that they receive average early career income of $54,958.
Located in the city of El Paso, UTEP is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Master's recipients from the other multi/interdisciplinary studies program at The University of Texas at El Paso make $4,485 more than the standard college graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.
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).