by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Consumer Science Major in Kansas” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 2,906 people earned their degree in general family and consumer sciences, making the major the 168th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, general family and consumer sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,445 and had an average of $27,314 in loans still to pay off.
Across Kansas, there were 40 general family and consumer sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,254 and $24,200 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 27 general family and consumer sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,562 and $28,681 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Consumer Science Major in Kansas” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general family and consumer sciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general family and consumer sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Consumer Science Major in Kansas” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for kansas bachelor’s degree consumer science students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pittsburg State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Consumer Science Major in Kansas list. Pittsburg State University is a medium-sized school located in Pittsburg, Kansas that handed out 15 bachelors’s consumer science degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Consumer Science 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 bachelors’s consumer science degrees to 12 students in 2020-2021.
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%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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