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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Human Development, Family Studies, & Related Services Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 676 people earned their degree in other human development, family studies, and related services, making the major the 526th most popular in the United States.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 75 other human development, family studies, and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 other human development, family studies, and related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,305 and $0 respectively.
The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their other human development, family studies, and related services program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Human Development, Family Studies, & Related Services Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region doctor’s degree other human development, family studies, & related services students.
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Human Development, Family Studies, & Related Services Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern University landed the #1 spot on the list. Northwestern is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Evanston, Illinois. It awarded 2 doctorate’s other human development, family studies, and related services degrees in 2020-2021.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.
Full Northwestern University Other Human Development, Family Studies, & Related Services Report
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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
- *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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