2022 Best Value Human Development and Family Studies Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Human Development and Family Studies Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 10,072 people earned their degree in general human development and family studies, making the major the 78th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,330 general human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 71 general human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general human development and family studies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general human development and family studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Human Development and Family Studies Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Human Development and Family Studies Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree human development and family studies students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Human Development & Family Studies in the Southwest Region

#1

Central New Mexico Community College

Albuquerque, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$3,429 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Human Development and Family Studies Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Central New Mexico Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. CNM is a public institution located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The school has a large population, and it awarded 67 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

CNM did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Human Development & Family Studies Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Central New Mexico Community College is $3,429 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Human Development and Family Studies students.

Full Central New Mexico Community College General Human Development & Family Studies Report

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Human Development & Family Studies

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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