2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Great Lakes region, there were 204 general family and consumer sciences/human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 75 general family and consumer sciences/human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 4 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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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree family studies students.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General in the Great Lakes Region

1

Eastern Illinois University
Charleston, Illinois

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Illinois University landed the #1 spot on the list. Eastern Illinois University is a public institution located in Charleston, Illinois. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 23 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full EIU Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General Report

2

Illinois State University
Normal, Illinois

Top 20% overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Illinois State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Normal, Illinois, this large public school handed out 31 degrees to qualified masters’s family studies students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General at Illinois State

3

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

#6 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Madison, Wisconsin is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s family studies degrees to 21 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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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Ohio University - Athens Campus
Athens, Ohio

Top 25% overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Ohio University - Athens Campus landed the #4 spot on the list. This large school is located in Athens, Ohio, and it awarded 9 masters’s family studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General at OHIO Athens

• Most Focused Master’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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