2023 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for General Human Development & Family Studies in the Plains States Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Human Development and Family Studies Major in the Plains States Region for an Associate” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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

Across the Plains States region, there were 587 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 4 general human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,723 and $22,140 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Human Development and Family Studies Major in the Plains States Region for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general human development and family studies. To top this list, a school must have a successful general human development and family studies program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Human Development and Family Studies Major in the Plains States Region for an Associate

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

Top 2 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for General Human Development & Family Studies in the Plains States Region

1

South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota

Top 5% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Human Development and Family Studies Major in the Plains States Region for an Associate list. Brookings, South Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s human development and family studies degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full South Dakota State University General Human Development & Family Studies Report

2

North Central University
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Top 5% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Central University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Human Development and Family Studies Major in the Plains States Region for an Associate. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified associates’s human development and family studies students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Human Development & Family Studies at North Central University

• Most Popular 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

• *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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