by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Kentucky” ranking - to help you make that decision.
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 Kentucky, there were 981 human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $20,703 and $29,314 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,023 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Kentucky” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Kentucky”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Kentucky University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Bowling Green, Kentucky, this fairly large public school awarded 4 degrees to qualified masters’s human development students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Kentucky landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Lexington, Kentucky, and it awarded 6 masters’s human development degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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