If you plan on getting your associate degree in multi / interdisciplinary studies, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #6 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.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Multi / Interdisciplinary Studies Associate Degree Schools in Arkansas ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 298 associate degrees in multi / interdisciplinary studies during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Early-Career Earnings
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to multi / interdisciplinary studies students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of multi / interdisciplinary studies students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for multi / interdisciplinary studies to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized multi / interdisciplinary studies related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for multi / interdisciplinary studies students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank 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 Multi / Interdisciplinary Studies Associate Degree Schools in Arkansas list to help you make the college decision.
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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.
by our College Data Analytics Team