2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in the Southeast Region

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Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General is the 226th most popular major in the country with 2,906 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 859 general family and consumer sciences/human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 general family and consumer sciences/human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general family and consumer sciences/human sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general family and consumer sciences/human sciences.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General in the Southeast Region

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Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida

#23 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Florida State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Florida State is a large school located in Tallahassee, Florida that handed out 5 doctorate’s family studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in the Southeast Region. Mississippi State University is a large school located in Mississippi State, Mississippi that handed out 1 doctorate’s family studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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