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2023 Best Value Consumer Economics Schools in the Great Lakes Region

1 Ranked Colleges
62 Degrees Awarded
$16,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Consumer Economics Schools in the Great Lakes Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Consumer Economics Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Family & Consumer Economics is the 211th most popular major in the country with 1,454 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, family and consumer economics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,903 and had an average of $24,231 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 62 family and consumer economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,172 and $23,125 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great family and consumer economics programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the family and consumer economics program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Consumer Economics Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region consumer economics students.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Family & Consumer Economics in the Great Lakes Region

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Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Consumer Economics Schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Ohio State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Columbus, Ohio is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s consumer economics degrees to 62 students in 2020-2021.

Ohio State also took the #1 spot in our “Best Family & Consumer Economics Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $16,845 for Great Lakes Region Consumer Economics students per year to attend Ohio State.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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