Where Can I Find A Bachelor of Science Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies?

If you’re look­ing for an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary stud­ies degree at the under­grad­u­ate lev­el, you’ll find there are two major degrees that are award­ed, a B.A. and a B.S. The B.A. ver­sions of these pro­grams gen­er­al­ly fea­ture more lan­guage and lib­er­al arts course options, while the Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence degree in inter­dis­ci­pli­nary stud­ies focus­es more on sci­ence and research.

Find­ing a Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence degree in inter­dis­ci­pli­nary stud­ies among all of the ones avail­able can be exhaust­ing. Where would you even start? Here are a few of the things to ask your­self when you’re search­ing for a Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence degree, no mat­ter what edu­ca­tion­al dis­ci­pline it’s in:

• How much can you afford to pay for a degree, and what can you do to mit­i­gate those costs via finan­cial aid, grants, etc.?
• Do you want to earn a Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence degree online, on-cam­pus, or in a hybrid for­mat of the two?
• Where do you plan to live and work after earn­ing your degree? Depend­ing on what school you attend, even if you attend remote­ly, you might find local oppor­tu­ni­ties in the area or state where the school is based.
• What are you look­ing to do with your Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence degree once you earn it?

When you’re search­ing for a Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence degree in inter­dis­ci­pli­nary stud­ies, you’ll find more options than you could pos­si­bly comb through. For­tu­nate­ly, we’ve set you up for suc­cess by going through all of the Bach­e­lor of Arts and Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence degrees in IS and rank­ing them based on their cost per cred­it hour, aver­age ear­ly salary of recent grad­u­ates, nation­al rep­u­ta­tion, and stu­dent to fac­ul­ty ratios. Here are the Bach­e­lor of Arts and Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence degrees in inter­dis­ci­pli­nary stud­ies that made the rank­ing. If you find any pro­grams on this list that you think would be a good match for your edu­ca­tion­al and career goals (and that fit your lifestyle) you can always reach out to them direct­ly to request more information.

In build­ing this list, we consulted:

• School web­sites
• The Nation­al Cen­ter for Edu­ca­tion Statistics
• U.S. News and World Report
• Among oth­er sources

Some of the top schools on our rank­ing offer­ing Bach­e­lor of Arts and/or Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence degrees in inter­dis­ci­pli­nary stud­ies include:

• Wheaton Col­lege: Stu­dents build a “guid­ing direc­tive” (pur­pose, theme, or top­ic) that focus­es their inter­dis­ci­pli­nary stud­ies, then choose two to three dis­ci­plines to study, and com­plete a final research project before graduating.
• Mol­loy Col­lege: Offers a Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence degree in inter­dis­ci­pli­nary stud­ies that can be com­bined with a degree in Child­hood Edu­ca­tion. The pro­gram is known for its flex­i­bil­i­ty in how stu­dents com­plete the degree.
• Uni­ver­si­ty of Vir­ginia: Choose from con­cen­tra­tions in busi­ness, cyber­se­cu­ri­ty, health­care man­age­ment, indi­vid­u­al­ized, infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy, and lib­er­al arts as part of this online BIS program.

Now that you’ve got­ten a taste of some of the Bach­e­lor of Arts and Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence degrees avail­able, check out the rest of the thir­ty schools we ranked in our Top 30 Bach­e­lor’s in Inter­dis­ci­pli­nary Stud­ies rank­ing. Once again, if you find a pro­gram you like, you can always reach out to sup­port staff to request more infor­ma­tion about it.

Relat­ed:

Top 30 Best Bachelor’s in Inter­dis­ci­pli­nary Studies

Top 15 Bach­e­lor of Lib­er­al Arts Degree Programs

Top 15 Online Bach­e­lor of Lib­er­al Arts Degree Programs