2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Human Sciences Major

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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Human Sciences Major” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 family, consumer and human sciences (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Human Sciences Major” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in family, consumer and human sciences (other). This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in family, consumer and human sciences (other).

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Human Sciences Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Human Sciences Major”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences (Other)

1

Hood College
Frederick, Maryland

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hood College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Human Sciences Major list. Hood College is located in Frederick, Maryland and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 masters’s other human sciences degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Family, Consumer & Human Sciences (Other) at Hood College

2

University of Akron Main Campus
Akron, Ohio

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Human Sciences Major that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Akron Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Akron Main Campus is a fairly large school located in Akron, Ohio that handed out 1 masters’s other human sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Family, Consumer & Human Sciences (Other) at University of Akron Main Campus

3

University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska

Top 15% overall quality in United States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Human Sciences Major list. University of Nebraska - Lincoln is a public institution located in Lincoln, Nebraska. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Full University of Nebraska - Lincoln Family, Consumer & Human Sciences (Other) Report

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.