by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Consumer Science Major in North Carolina for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
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 North Carolina, there were 134 general family and consumer sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,092 and $34,231 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 104 general family and consumer sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,368 and $25,940 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Consumer Science Major in North Carolina for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in general family and consumer sciences. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular general family and consumer sciences programs in the United States.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Consumer Science Major in North Carolina for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Consumer Science Major in North Carolina for a Bachelor’s”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Consumer Science Major in North Carolina for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, North Carolina Central University landed the #1 spot on the list. North Carolina Central University is a medium-sized public school situated in Durham, North Carolina. It awarded 74 bachelors’s consumer science degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on General Family & Consumer Sciences at North Carolina Central University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Carolina A & T State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Consumer Science Major in North Carolina for a Bachelor’s list. Greensboro, North Carolina is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s consumer science degrees to 26 students in 2020-2021.
Read more about General Family & Consumer Sciences at North Carolina A & T State University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Meredith College. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Consumer Science Major in North Carolina for a Bachelor’s. Meredith College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Raleigh, North Carolina. It awarded 4 bachelors’s consumer science degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.
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