2024 Best Value Consumer Science Schools in New York
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Ranked Colleges
53
Degrees Awarded
$10,800
Avg Net Price*
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Consumer Science Schools in New York” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
General Family & Consumer Sciences is the 168th most popular major in the country with 2,906 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general family & consumer sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,445 and had an average of $27,314 in loans still to pay off.
Across New York, there were 53 general family & consumer sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,843 and $18,500 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Consumer Science Schools in New York” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general family & consumer sciences. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general family & consumer sciences programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general family & consumer sciences program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Consumer Science Schools in New York” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Value Consumer Science Schools in New York
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Consumer Science Schools in New York.
Top 2 Best Value Colleges for General Family & Consumer Sciences in New York
Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Consumer Science Schools in New York that were part of this year’s ranking, SUNY Oneonta landed the #1 spot on the list. SUNY Oneonta is located in Oneonta, New York and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 13 ’s consumer science degrees to qualified students.
SUNY Oneonta did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Family & Consumer Sciences Schools in New York” list. The yearly cost to attend SUNY Oneonta is $18,223 for New York Consumer Science students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about General Family & Consumer Sciences at SUNY Oneonta
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Queens College. It ranked #2 on our 2024 Best Value Consumer Science Schools in New York list. QC is a fairly large school located in Queens, New York that handed out 40 ’s consumer science degrees in 2020-2021.
QC also made our “Best General Family & Consumer Sciences Schools in New York” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for QC is $3,469 for New York Consumer Science students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Queens College General Family & Consumer Sciences Report
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Notes and References
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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