2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Development & Family Studies in Tennessee

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Master’s in Tennessee” 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 Tennessee, there were 498 human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,033 and $28,778 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 58 human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Human Development Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in human development and family studies. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality human development and family studies programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the human development and family studies program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Human Development Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Human Development Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee

The colleges and universities below are the best for tennessee master’s degree human development students.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Development & Family Studies in Tennessee

#1

The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Knoxville, Tennessee

#2 in overall quality

$31,798 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$40,419 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Human Development Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Tennessee - Knoxville landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Knoxville, Tennessee, this large public school awarded 29 diplomas to qualified masters’s human development students in 2019-2020.

UT Knoxville not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Human Development & Family Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UT Knoxville are $31,798.

Read more about Human Development & Family Studies at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

#2

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee

#1 in overall quality

$50,624 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$29,685 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vanderbilt University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Human Development Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee list. Vanderbilt is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Nashville, Tennessee. It awarded 21 masters’s human development degrees in 2019-2020.

Vanderbilt not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Human Development & Family Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Vanderbilt are $50,624.

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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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