You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a Master's Degree in family, consumer & human sciences. It is ranked #25 out of 37 major degree programs in terms of popularity. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Master's Degree Schools in Arizona ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 218 master's degrees in family, consumer & human sciences during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Family, Consumer & Human Sciences School for Your Master's Degree
The family, consumer & human sciences master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to family, consumer & human sciences students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other family, consumer & human sciences students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt family, consumer & human sciences students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized family, consumer & human sciences related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for family, consumer & human sciences students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools
The family, consumer & human sciences school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Master's Degree Schools in Arizona.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Family, Consumer & Human Sciences in Arizona
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for family, consumer & human sciences students seeking a a master's degree.
Top Arizona Schools for a Master's in Family, Consumer & Human Sciences
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).