2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Development & Family Studies in Kansas

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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 Kansas, there were 238 human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,883 and $24,336 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 46 human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,354 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Kansas” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in human development and family studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their human development and family studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Kansas

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Development & Family Studies in Kansas

1

Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas

#2 overall quality in Kansas

$43,914 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Kansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Kansas State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Manhattan, Kansas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s human development degrees to 32 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Human Development & Family Studies at K -State

2

Wichita State University
Wichita, Kansas

#4 overall quality in Kansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wichita State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Development Major in Kansas. This fairly large school is located in Wichita, Kansas, and it awarded 14 masters’s human development degrees in 2020-2021.

Full WSU Human Development & Family Studies Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Development & Family Studies in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Development & Family Studies

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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