2023 Best Value Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences (Other)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Other Human Sciences Schools” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Family, Consumer & Human Sciences (Other) is the 322nd most popular major in the country with 158 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, family, consumer and human sciences (other) graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

This year’s “Best Value Other Human Sciences Schools” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in family, consumer and human sciences (other). This ranking identifies schools with high-quality family, consumer and human sciences (other) programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the family, consumer and human sciences (other) program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Other Human Sciences Schools

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Other Human Sciences Schools.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences (Other)

1

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

#1 in overall quality

$13,572 Average Net Price

$51,388 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Utah. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Best Value Other Human Sciences Schools list. University of Utah is located in Salt Lake City, Utah and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 106 ’s other human sciences degrees to qualified students.

U of U did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences (Other) Schools” list. It costs about $13,572 for Other Human Sciences students per year to attend University of Utah.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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2

Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama

#2 in overall quality

$24,018 Average Net Price

$49,769 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Auburn University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Other Human Sciences Schools list. Auburn University is located in Auburn, Alabama and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 22 ’s other human sciences degrees to qualified students.

Auburn also took the #2 spot in our “Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences (Other) Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Auburn University is $24,018 for other human sciences students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.