by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Human Development Major in Oregon for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 Oregon, there were 667 human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,129 and $30,599 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,963 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Human Development Major in Oregon for a Master’s” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in human development and family studies. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in human development and family studies.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Well Attended Human Development Major in Oregon for a Master’s” list to help you make the college decision.
We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.
The colleges and universities below are the best for oregon master’s degree human development students.
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Human Development Major in Oregon for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Oregon landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Eugene, Oregon, and it awarded 19 masters’s human development degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oregon State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Human Development Major in Oregon for a Master’s list. Oregon State University is a public institution located in Corvallis, Oregon. The school has a large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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%.
Full Oregon State University Human Development & Family Studies Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Human Development Major in Oregon for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Oregon University landed the #3 spot on the list. Monmouth, Oregon is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s human development degrees to 25 students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Human Development & Family Studies at Western Oregon University
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