The main focus area for this major is Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
General Family & Consumer Sciences is a major offered under the family, consumer and human sciences program of study at Texas Southern University. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the bachelor’s degree program in consumer science, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, whether or not the degree is offered online, and more.
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In order to help students and their parents find the best school for them, we have created several different types of college rankings, which are updated yearly. The bachelor's program at TSU was ranked #64 on College Factual's Best Schools for consumer science list. It is also ranked #7 in Texas.
Here are some of the other rankings for TSU.
During the 2019-2020 academic year, part-time undergraduate students at TSU paid an average of $459 per credit hour if they came to the school from out-of-state. In-state students paid a discounted rate of $100 per credit hour. The average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates are shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $6,941 | $19,707 |
Fees | $1,696 | $1,736 |
Books and Supplies | $1,646 | $1,646 |
On Campus Room and Board | $9,280 | $9,280 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $4,945 | $4,945 |
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You may also want to consider how much in student loans you’ll need when thinking about the overall cost to attend a school. Students who received their bachelor’s degree at TSU in Consumer Science walked away with an average of $49,500 in student debt. That is 103% higher than the national average of $24,393.
The median early career salary of consumer science students who receive their bachelor’s degree from TSU is $34,908 per year. That is 27% higher than the national average of $27,453.
Online degrees for the TSU consumer science bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the TSU Online Learning page.
All of the students who received their Bachelor’s in consumer science in 2019-2020 were women.
Of those students who received a bachelor’s degree in consumer science at TSU in 2019-2020, all were racial-ethnic minorities*.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 0 |
Black or African American | 6 |
Hispanic or Latino | 1 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 0 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 0 |
General Family & Consumer Sciences students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General | 7 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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