by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Louisiana” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Human Development & Family Studies is the 44th most popular major in the country with 42,112 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, human development and family studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $28,862 and had an average of $22,387 in loans still to pay off.
Across Louisiana, there were 465 human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $21,692 and $21,002 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 217 human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,566 and $28,067 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Louisiana” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in human development and family studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in human development and family studies.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Louisiana”.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Louisiana”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Grambling State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Louisiana list. GSU is a public institution located in Grambling, Louisiana. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 35 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern University at New Orleans. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Louisiana. Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, this small public school awarded 9 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s human development students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Human Development & Family Studies at SUNO
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northwestern State University of Louisiana. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Louisiana. This fairly large school is located in Natchitoches, Louisiana, and it awarded 49 bachelors’s human development degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Northwestern State University of Louisiana Human Development & Family Studies Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana Tech University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Louisiana list. Louisiana Tech is a fairly large public school situated in Ruston, Louisiana. It awarded 50 bachelors’s human development degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Louisiana Tech Human Development & Family Studies Report
Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Louisiana at Lafayette landed the #5 spot on the list. University of Louisiana at Lafayette is located in Lafayette, Louisiana and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 45 bachelors’s human development degrees to qualified students.
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Louisiana list. Located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this large public school handed out 29 degrees to qualified bachelors’s human development students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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