2023 Schools Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in Kansas

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In 2020-2021, 2,906 people earned their degree in general family and consumer sciences/human sciences, making the major the 226th most popular in the United States.

Across Kansas, there were 40 general family and consumer sciences/human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in Kansas” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in Kansas

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in Kansas”.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General in Kansas

1

Pittsburg State University
Pittsburg, Kansas

#8 overall quality in Kansas

$41,688 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,877 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in Kansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Pittsburg State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Pittsburg, Kansas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s family studies degrees to 15 students in 2020-2021.

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2

Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas

#2 overall quality in Kansas

$45,255 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,986 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Family Studies Major in Kansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Kansas State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Manhattan, Kansas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s family studies degrees to 25 students in 2020-2021.

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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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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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