2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General in the Plains States Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Plains States region, there were 201 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 21 general family and consumer sciences/human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,829 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in the Plains States Region

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

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

1

Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kansas State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in the Plains States Region. Kansas State University is located in Manhattan, Kansas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 13 doctorate’s family studies degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% 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%.

Read more about Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General at K -State

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University of Missouri - Columbia
Columbia, Missouri

#20 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Missouri - Columbia. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in the Plains States Region list. This large school is located in Columbia, Missouri, and it awarded 8 doctorate’s family studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General at Mizzou

• 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.

Credits

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