2024 Best General Family & Consumer Sciences Schools in the Plains States Region
5Colleges in the Plains States Region
177Consumer Science Degrees Awarded
$30,604Avg Early-Career Salary
General Family & Consumer Sciences isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #168 in popularity out of 395 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
College Factual looked at 5 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best General Family & Consumer Sciences Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 177 degrees in general family & consumer sciences during the 2021-2022 academic year.
Choosing a Great General Family & Consumer Sciences School
Your choice of general family & consumer sciences school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall General Family & Consumer Sciences School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
General Family & Consumer Sciences Rankings by Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Family & Consumer Sciences Schools in the Plains States Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for General Family & Consumer Sciences in the Plains States Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the consumer science degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Plains States Region Schools in Consumer Science
Iowa State University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in general family & consumer sciences. Iowa State is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Ames. A Best Colleges rank of #75 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Iowa State is a great university overall.
There were approximately 34 general family & consumer sciences students who graduated with this degree at Iowa State in the most recent year we have data available. Degree recipients from the general family & consumer sciences degree program at Iowa State University get $7,843 more than the average graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
Kansas State University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in general family & consumer sciences. Located in the city of Manhattan, K -State is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #225 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means K -State is a great university overall.
There were approximately 23 general family & consumer sciences students who graduated with this degree at K -State in the most recent year we have data available. Degree recipients from the general family & consumer sciences program at Kansas State University earn $6,293 above the average college grad with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
University of Missouri - Columbia is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in general family & consumer sciences. Located in the city of Columbia, Mizzou is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #124 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Mizzou is a great university overall.
There were approximately 7 general family & consumer sciences students who graduated with this degree at Mizzou in the most recent year we have data available.
Minnesota State University - Mankato is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in general family & consumer sciences. Minnesota State Mankato is a large public university located in the small city of Mankato. This university ranks 13th out of 52 schools for overall quality in the state of Minnesota.
There were about 48 general family & consumer sciences students who graduated with this degree at Minnesota State Mankato in the most recent year we have data available. After graduation, consumer science degree recipients usually earn around $30,773 in the first five years of their career.
Southeast Missouri State University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in general family & consumer sciences. Southeast Missouri State University is a moderately-sized public university located in the small city of Cape Girardeau. This university ranks 27th out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 55 general family & consumer sciences students who graduated with this degree at Southeast Missouri State University in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the consumer science program report average early career income of $26,634.
Pitt State is a medium-sized public university located in the distant town of Pittsburg. This university ranks 11th out of 47 colleges for overall quality in the state of Kansas.
There were approximately 9 general family & consumer sciences students who graduated with this degree at Pitt State in the most recent year we have data available. Graduates who receive their degree from the consumer science program make about $29,610 in the first couple years of working.
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).
Your choice of general family & consumer sciences school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall General Family & Consumer Sciences School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
