2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Family & Consumer Sciences in the Southeast Region

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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 the Southeast region, there were 859 general family and consumer sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,635 and $31,435 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 general family and consumer sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Consumer Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Consumer Science Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree consumer science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Family & Consumer Sciences in the Southeast Region

1

Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida

#23 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Consumer Science Major in the Southeast Region list. Florida State University is a public institution located in Tallahassee, Florida. The school has a large population, and it awarded 5 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.

Read full report on General Family & Consumer Sciences at Florida State

2

Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Consumer Science Major in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Mississippi State, Mississippi, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s consumer science degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Mississippi State University General Family & Consumer Sciences Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Family & Consumer Sciences

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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