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2022 Best Value Human Development Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

8 Ranked Colleges
209 Degrees Awarded
$20,300 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Human Development Schools for a Master's in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Human Development Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 41,651 people earned their degree in human development and family studies, making the major the 41st most popular in the United States. 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 the Southwest region, there were 3,509 human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,656 and $25,252 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 209 human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Human Development Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 8 colleges that offer a degree in human development and family studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent human development and family studies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the human development and family studies program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Human Development Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Human Development Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region.

Top 8 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Development & Family Studies in the Southwest Region

#1

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Tech University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Human Development Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region. Texas Tech is a large public school situated in Lubbock, Texas. It awarded 7 masters’s human development degrees in 2019-2020.

Texas Tech also made our “Best Human Development & Family Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Texas Tech University are $17,530.

Full Texas Tech Human Development & Family Studies Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Woman’s University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Human Development Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region. Denton, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s human development degrees to 79 students in 2019-2020.

TWU also made our “Best Human Development & Family Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #4. Average graduate tuition and fees at Texas Woman’s University are $14,962, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Texas Woman’s University Human Development & Family Studies Report

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Human Development Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Oklahoma landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Central Oklahoma is located in Edmond, Oklahoma and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 10 masters’s human development degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UCO, the school also landed the #6 spot in our “Best Human Development & Family Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UCO are $17,913, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#2 in overall quality

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Human Development Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Austin landed the #4 spot on the list. UT Austin is a large school located in Austin, Texas that handed out 8 masters’s human development degrees in 2019-2020.

UT Austin did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Human Development & Family Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UT Austin are $22,886.

Read more about Human Development & Family Studies at UT Austin

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Phoenix - Arizona. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Human Development Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region list. UOPX - Arizona is a private for-profit institution located in Tempe, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 32 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region master’s degree human development students list, UOPX - Arizona has also earned the #8 rank in our “Best Human Development & Family Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Phoenix - Arizona are $17,096, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full University of Phoenix - Arizona Human Development & Family Studies Report

Oklahoma State University - Main Campus did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Human Development Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #6. Located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, this large public school awarded 25 diplomas to qualified masters’s human development students in 2019-2020.

OSU also made our “Best Human Development & Family Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #3. Average graduate tuition and fees at OSU are $23,963, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Human Development & Family Studies at Oklahoma State University - Main Campus

#7

Texas State University

San Marcos, Texas

Texas State University did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Human Development Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #7. Texas State is a large school located in San Marcos, Texas that handed out 14 masters’s human development degrees in 2019-2020.

Texas State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #7 on our “Best Human Development & Family Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Texas State University are $17,040, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Human Development & Family Studies at Texas State University

Arizona State University - Tempe did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Human Development Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #8. ASU - Tempe is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 23 masters’s human development degrees in 2019-2020.

ASU - Tempe not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Human Development & Family Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at ASU - Tempe are $27,048, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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