2024 Best Value Colleges for General Human Development & Family Studies in Georgia

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General Human Development & Family Studies is the 88th most popular major in the country with 9,497 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Georgia, there were 261 general human development & family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Human Development and Family Studies Schools in Georgia” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general human development & family studies. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general human development & family studies programs and 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 & 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 in Georgia

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Human Development and Family Studies Schools in Georgia.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for General Human Development & Family Studies in Georgia

1

University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

#1 in overall quality

$14,257 Average Net Price

$46,768 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Georgia. It ranked #1 on our 2024 Best Value Human Development and Family Studies Schools in Georgia list. This large school is located in Athens, Georgia, and it awarded 195 ’s human development and family studies degrees in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UGA, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Human Development & Family Studies Schools in Georgia” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UGA is $14,257 for georgia human development and family studies students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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 General Human Development & Family Studies at University of Georgia

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Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, Georgia

#2 in overall quality

$15,571 Average Net Price

$41,176 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Human Development and Family Studies Schools in Georgia that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgia Southern University landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Statesboro, Georgia, and it awarded 66 ’s human development and family studies degrees in 2020-2021.

GaSou also made our “Best General Human Development & Family Studies Schools in Georgia” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $15,571 for georgia human development and family studies students per year to attend Georgia Southern University.

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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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