2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development and Family Studies Major in District of Columbia

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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 District of Columbia, there were 28 general human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 28 general human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,584 and $27,317 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development and Family Studies Major in District of Columbia” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general human development and family studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general human development and family studies.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development and Family Studies Major in District of Columbia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development and Family Studies Major in District of Columbia”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Human Development & Family Studies in District of Columbia

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University of the District of Columbia
Washington, District of Columbia

#8 overall quality in District of Columbia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development and Family Studies Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, University of the District of Columbia landed the #1 spot on the list. University of the District of Columbia is a small public school situated in Washington, District of Columbia. It awarded 20 bachelors’s human development and family studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full University of the District of Columbia General Human Development & Family Studies Report

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Howard University
Washington, District of Columbia

#6 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Howard University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development and Family Studies Major in District of Columbia list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 8 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s human development and family studies students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about General Human Development & Family Studies at Howard

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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

• *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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