by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Consumer Science Major in Missouri” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Family & Consumer Sciences is the 168th most popular major in the country with 2,906 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Missouri, there were 72 general family and consumer sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,634 and $25,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 64 general family and consumer sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,023 and $28,243 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Consumer Science Major in Missouri” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general family and consumer sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in general family and consumer sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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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 Missouri” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for missouri bachelor’s degree consumer science students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Consumer Science Major in Missouri that were part of this year’s ranking, Southeast Missouri State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Cape Girardeau, Missouri is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s consumer science degrees to 61 students in 2020-2021.
Read more about General Family & Consumer Sciences at Southeast Missouri State University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Missouri - Columbia. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Consumer Science Major in Missouri. This large school is located in Columbia, Missouri, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s consumer science 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full University of Missouri - Columbia General Family & Consumer Sciences Report
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