What Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General Graduates Earn

Median earnings at 1, 4, and 5 years (College Scorecard)

Start with the shape of the table: Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General pays $42,757 at the first measured horizon and $53,119 at the last, and those two medians rest on 6,623 and 4,373 graduates counted respectively. The headline figures weight each reporting program by its graduates counted, so the 400-graduate program moves the national number more than the 12-graduate one; the unweighted column beside it shows the middle program, plain and simple.

Five years out, the median graduate earns $53,119, which is $10,362 more than the year-one median of $42,757 (24% growth). Set against the median field overall ($45,010 at year one, $65,763 at year five), this field starts below the pack and ends below it.

Scorecard separates the first-year figure by Pell history for this field: $41,529 for graduates who received Pell, $44,470 for those who did not. The $2,941 difference tracks institutional mix and starting networks far more than it tracks the credential itself, and it is printed here because a Pell student comparing programs deserves the unblended number.

Inside its own CIP family, Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General ranks 7 of 8 published bachelor's fields by five-year earnings; the family median at that horizon is $62,349. Its closest sibling is Behavioral Sciences at $49,748, below this field's $53,119. Family comparisons strip out the broad field effect and leave the specific program choice exposed.

Ranked across all 182 published fields, Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General stands number 151 by five-year earnings and number 118 by first-year earnings, and number 58 from the lowest median debt. Those three ranks together are the field's fingerprint: high earn rank with a low debt rank is the combination students are actually shopping for, and this field's spread between them is 93 places.

The debt side of the same degree

What does the median Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General graduate owe? $19,581, the graduate-weighted median over 89 programs with published debt figures. The ratio that matters is debt to first-year earnings: 46%, or 5.5 months of gross pay at the $42,757 median. At the 2026-27 undergraduate loan rate of 6.52%, the standard decade of repayment is $223 a month with $7,124 of interest on top. Model a different balance in the student loan payoff calculator before you borrow it, and sanity-check the degree in the college major ROI calculator.

Where graduates of this field earn the most

The national median hides the real spread: inside Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General, individual programs post five-year medians far from $53,119 in both directions. Below are the highest, filtered to programs with 30 or more graduates counted at five years; Stonehill College sits first at $84,863.

Treat the top of this table as a research list, not a ranking to enroll by: medians reflect local labor markets and student mix as much as teaching. The honest comparison pairs each program's earnings here with its net price from the net price estimator and its four-year total from the degree cost calculator.

Two more facts about the shape of this field: the five highest-paying programs in the table account for only 6.2% of the 4,373 graduates counted at five years, so the top of the table is a thin slice and not the field's center; and the leading program's five-year median of $84,863 sits 60% above the national field median of $53,119. Its graduates' debt figure is not published, one of the gaps this page leaves visible rather than filling.