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. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Human Development Major in Texas for a Master’s” 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 Texas, there were 2,107 human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,850 and $22,777 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 124 human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,376 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Human Development Major in Texas for a Master’s” ranking looked at 8 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Human Development Major in Texas for a Master’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for texas master’s degree human development students.
Out of the 8 schools in the Most Well Attended Human Development Major in Texas for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Woman’s University landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas Woman’s University is a public institution located in Denton, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 64 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Amberton University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Human Development Major in Texas for a Master’s. Garland, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s human development degrees to 19 students in 2020-2021.
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Out of the 8 schools in the Most Well Attended Human Development Major in Texas for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in San Marcos, Texas, this large public school awarded 16 degrees to qualified masters’s human development students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 8 schools in the Most Well Attended Human Development Major in Texas for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Tech University landed the #4 spot on the list. Texas Tech is located in Lubbock, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 8 masters’s human development degrees to qualified students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Human Development & Family Studies at Texas Tech University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lubbock Christian University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Human Development Major in Texas for a Master’s list. Lubbock, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s human development degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at Austin. The school came in at #5 for the Most Well Attended Human Development Major in Texas for a Master’s. This large school is located in Austin, Texas, and it awarded 6 masters’s human development degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, 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 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Human Development & Family Studies at UT Austin
Hardin - Simmons University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Most Well Attended Human Development Major in Texas for a Master’s ranking. This small school is located in Abilene, Texas, and it awarded 5 masters’s human development degrees in 2020-2021.
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University of North Texas did quite well in the 2023 Most Well Attended Human Development Major in Texas for a Master’s ranking, coming in at #8. This large school is located in Denton, Texas, and it awarded 70 masters’s human development degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
Read full report on Human Development & Family Studies at UNT
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