by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in Illinois” ranking.
Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General is the 226th most popular major in the country with 2,906 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Illinois, there were 130 general family and consumer sciences/human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 76 general family and consumer sciences/human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,117 and $25,584 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in Illinois” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in general family and consumer sciences/human sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in general family and consumer sciences/human sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois bachelor’s degree family studies students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Illinois University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in Illinois list. Eastern Illinois University is located in Charleston, Illinois and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 48 bachelors’s family studies degrees to qualified students.
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Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Illinois State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Normal, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s family studies degrees to 26 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Olivet Nazarene University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in Illinois. Olivet Nazarene University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Bourbonnais, Illinois. It awarded 1 bachelors’s family studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Illinois University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in Illinois. This medium-sized school is located in Macomb, Illinois, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s family studies degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bradley University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in Illinois list. Located in Peoria, Illinois, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s family studies students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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