by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Virginia” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 42,112 people earned their degree in human development and family studies, making the major the 44th most popular in the United States. 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 Virginia, there were 1,270 human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,032 and $18,193 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 345 human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,553 and $27,844 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Virginia” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in human development and family studies. That schools that top this list have a program in human development and family studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Virginia” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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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 Virginia”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Virginia University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Virginia list. Southern Virginia University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Buena Vista, Virginia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Tech. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Virginia list. This large school is located in Blacksburg, Virginia, and it awarded 221 bachelors’s human development degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Human Development & Family Studies at Virginia Tech
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Virginia - Main Campus landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Virginia is located in Charlottesville, Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 50 bachelors’s human development degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Human Development & Family Studies at University of Virginia
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Liberty University landed the #4 spot on the list. Lynchburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s human development degrees to 40 students in 2020-2021.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Mason University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Virginia list. Fairfax, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s human development degrees to 17 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Human Development & Family Studies at George Mason University
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