2023 Best Value Consumer Economics Schools in the Great Lakes Region
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Ranked Colleges
62
Degrees Awarded
$16,800
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 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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