2024 Best Human Development & Family Studies Schools in Nebraska
3Colleges in Nebraska
161Human Development Degrees Awarded
$34,462Avg Early-Career Salary
If you plan on majoring in human development & family studies, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #44 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.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Nebraska to determine which ones were the best for human development & family studies students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 161 degrees in human development & family studies during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Human Development & Family Studies School
The human development program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Human Development & Family Studies rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for human development & family studies schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your Human Development & Family Studies Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Human Development & Family Studies Schools in Nebraska ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Human Development & Family Studies in Nebraska
The schools below may not offer all types of human development degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Any student who is interested in human development & family studies has to look into University of Nebraska - Lincoln. UNL is a very large public university located in the large city of Lincoln. A Best Colleges rank of #138 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UNL is a great university overall.
There were approximately 38 human development & family studies students who graduated with this degree at UNL in the most recent year we have data available. Human Development & Family Studies degree recipients from University of Nebraska - Lincoln earn a boost of about $7,182 above the typical earnings of human development & family studies graduates.
Every student who is interested in human development & family studies has to check out Metropolitan Community College. MCC is a fairly large public college located in the city of Omaha. This college ranks 6th out of 19 schools for overall quality in the state of Nebraska.
There were about 14 human development & family studies students who graduated with this degree at MCC in the most recent year we have data available. Graduates who receive their degree from the human development program earn about $26,716 in the first couple years of working.
Southeast Community College Area is a great choice for students pursuing a degree in human development & family studies. Located in the large city of Lincoln, Southeast Community College is a public college with a moderately-sized student population. This college ranks 11th out of 19 colleges for overall quality in the state of Nebraska.
There were about 11 human development & family studies students who graduated with this degree at Southeast Community College in the most recent year we have data available. Graduates who receive their degree from the human development program make about $20,473 in the first couple years of their career.
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.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).