2024 Best General Family & Consumer Sciences Bachelor's Degree Schools in Tennessee

a bachelor's degree in general family & consumer sciences is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #127 out of 363 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Tennessee to determine which ones were the best for general family & consumer sciences students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 102 bachelor's degrees in general family & consumer sciences during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general family & consumer sciences students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of general family & consumer sciences students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt general family & consumer sciences students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general family & consumer sciences related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general family & consumer sciences students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank General Family & Consumer Sciences Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Family & Consumer Sciences Bachelor's Degree Schools in Tennessee ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study General Family & Consumer Sciences in Tennessee

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in general family & consumer sciences.

Top Tennessee Schools for a Bachelor's in Consumer Science

1

The University of Tennessee - Martin
Martin, TN

24 Annual Graduates

$22,812 Median Starting Salary

$27,000 Median Student Debt

It's hard to beat The University of Tennessee - Martin if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in general family & consumer sciences. UT Martin is a moderately-sized public university located in the town of Martin.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the consumer science program make an average of $22,812 in their early career salary.

More information about a bachelor’s in general family & consumer sciences from The University of Tennessee - Martin

2

Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, TN

67 Annual Graduates

$25,901 Median Starting Salary

$20,975 Median Student Debt

Tennessee Technological University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in general family & consumer sciences. Tennessee Tech University is a moderately-sized public university located in the town of Cookeville.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the consumer science program make about $25,901 in their early career salary.

More information about a bachelor’s in general family & consumer sciences from Tennessee Technological University

Best General Family & Consumer Sciences Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best General Family & Consumer Sciences Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Georgia	224	13
North Carolina	213	104
Virginia	213	17
South Carolina	195	36
Kentucky	187	38
Alabama	184	201
Louisiana	171	76
Mississippi	169	31
Arkansas	167	55
West Virginia	147	2

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Rankings in Majors Related to Consumer Science

One of 8 majors within the Family, Consumer & Human Sciences area of study, General Family & Consumer Sciences has other similar majors worth exploring.

Consumer Science Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General	102

Majors Similar to Consumer Science

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Human Development & Family Studies	174
Family & Consumer Economics	110
Food, Nutrition & Related Services	51
Textile & Apparel Studies	21

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to National Cancer Institute. More about our data sources and methodologies.