2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Consumer Science Major in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Consumer Science Major in the Southwest Region” 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 the Southwest region, there were 540 general family and consumer sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,370 and $26,824 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 general family and consumer sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,218 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Consumer Science Major in the Southwest 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 Southwest Region

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

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

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Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Stillwater, Oklahoma

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Consumer Science Major in the Southwest Region. Oklahoma State University - Main Campus is located in Stillwater, Oklahoma and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 doctorate’s consumer science degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on General Family & Consumer Sciences at OSU

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University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Consumer Science Major in the Southwest Region. UNM is a large public school situated in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It awarded 1 doctorate’s consumer science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Family & Consumer Sciences at University of New Mexico - Main Campus

• 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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