2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Family & Consumer Sciences in California

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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 California, there were 767 general family and consumer sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,400 and $17,068 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 general family and consumer sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,974 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Consumer Science Major in California” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general family and consumer sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general family and consumer sciences.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Consumer Science Major in California

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Consumer Science Major in California”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Family & Consumer Sciences in California

1

California State University - Northridge
Northridge, California

$44,844 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California State University - Northridge. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Consumer Science Major in California list. California State University - Northridge is a large school located in Northridge, California that handed out 10 masters’s consumer science degrees 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%.

Read more about General Family & Consumer Sciences at CSUN

2

San Francisco State University
San Francisco, California

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Consumer Science Major in California that were part of this year’s ranking, San Francisco State University landed the #2 spot on the list. San Francisco State University is a large school located in San Francisco, California that handed out 1 masters’s consumer science degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full San Francisco State University General Family & Consumer Sciences Report

3

California State University - Long Beach
Long Beach, California

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Consumer Science Major in California that were part of this year’s ranking, California State University - Long Beach landed the #3 spot on the list. California State University - Long Beach is a large public school situated in Long Beach, California. It awarded 445 masters’s consumer science degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% 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%.

Read more about General Family & Consumer Sciences at CSULB

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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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