2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Family Systems

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Family Systems Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Family Systems is the 582nd most popular major in the country with 541 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 family systems graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,260 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Family Systems Major” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in family systems. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their family systems program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Family Systems Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for doctor’s degree family systems students.

Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Family Systems

1

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kentucky. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Family Systems Major list. Lexington, Kentucky is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s family systems degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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 Family Systems at University of Kentucky

2

Loma Linda University
Loma Linda, California

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Loma Linda University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Family Systems Major. Loma Linda University is located in Loma Linda, California and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 doctorate’s family systems degrees to qualified students.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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2

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Family Systems Major that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Storrs, Connecticut, and it awarded 0 doctorate’s family systems degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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 Family Systems at University of Connecticut

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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