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2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Human Development & Family Studies in the Great Lakes Region

5 Ranked Colleges
54 Degrees Awarded
$18,400 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Human Development and Family Studies Schools for a Master's in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Human Development and Family Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Human Development & Family Studies is the 78th most popular major in the country with 10,072 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,149 general human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 54 general human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Human Development and Family Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general human development and family studies. 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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Best Value Human Development and Family Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Human Development and Family Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 5 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Human Development & Family Studies in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Purdue University Northwest

Hammond, Indiana
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Purdue University Northwest. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Human Development and Family Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Hammond, Indiana, this medium-sized public school handed out 15 degrees to qualified masters’s human development and family studies students in 2019-2020.

Purdue Northwest did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best General Human Development & Family Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Purdue Northwest are $11,633.

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#2

Northern Illinois University

Dekalb, Illinois
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Human Development and Family Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Illinois University landed the #2 spot on the list. NIU is located in Dekalb, Illinois and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 17 masters’s human development and family studies degrees to qualified students.

NIU also made our “Best General Human Development & Family Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #3. Average graduate tuition and fees at Northern Illinois University are $11,086, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#3

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Human Development and Family Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University - Main Campus landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in West Lafayette, Indiana, this large public school awarded 7 degrees to qualified masters’s human development and family studies students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Purdue, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Human Development & Family Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Purdue University - Main Campus are $28,794.

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#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio University - Athens Campus. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Human Development and Family Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region list. OHIO Athens is a large school located in Athens, Ohio that handed out 3 masters’s human development and family studies degrees in 2019-2020.

OHIO Athens did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best General Human Development & Family Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Ohio University - Athens Campus are $17,712.

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#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kent State University at Kent. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Human Development and Family Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Kent, Ohio, this large public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s human development and family studies students in 2019-2020.

Kent State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best General Human Development & Family Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Kent State are $21,952, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about General Human Development & Family Studies at Kent State University at Kent

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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

  • *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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