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2022 Best Value Human Development Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid

1 Ranked Colleges
4 Degrees Awarded
$33,200 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Human Development Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid

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 “Best Value Human Development Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Human Development & Family Studies is the 41st most popular major in the country with 41,651 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, human development and family studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $27,032 and had an average of $24,110 in loans still to pay off.

Across Kentucky, there were 1,000 human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $19,667 and $22,840 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,800 and $117,458 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality human development and family studies programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the human development and family studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The human development school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Human Development Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid”.

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Best Value Human Development Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Human Development Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Human Development & Family Studies in Kentucky (With Aid)

#1

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kentucky. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Human Development Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Lexington, Kentucky, this large public school awarded 4 degrees to qualified doctorate’s human development students in 2019-2020.

UK not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Human Development & Family Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in Kentucky” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Kentucky are $33,216.

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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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