2022 Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey For Those Making $30-$48k

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 “Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Family, Consumer & Human Sciences is the 21st most popular major in the country with 56,273 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, family, consumer and human sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $29,430 and had an average of $24,438 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Jersey, there were 541 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,833 and $28,006 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 71 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,690 and $39,821 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in family, consumer and human sciences. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great family, consumer and human sciences programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the family, consumer and human sciences program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences (Income $30-$48k) in New Jersey

#1

Montclair State University

Montclair, New Jersey

$18,972 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Montclair State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey For Those Making $30-$48k. Montclair, New Jersey is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s family, consumer and human sciences degrees to 27 students in 2019-2020.

Montclair State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Montclair State are $18,972, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#2

College of Saint Elizabeth

Morristown, New Jersey

#1 in overall quality

$18,734 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend College of Saint Elizabeth. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey For Those Making $30-$48k. CSE is a private not-for-profit institution located in Morristown, New Jersey. The school has a small population, and it awarded 44 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

CSE did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at CSE are $18,734, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences (Income $30-$48k) in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences (Income $30-$48k)

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.

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