2022 Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Making $75-$110k

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 “Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Nebraska, there were 606 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,943 and $22,631 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 412 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,068 and $24,613 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in family, consumer and human sciences. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality family, consumer and human sciences programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the family, consumer and human sciences program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences (Income $75-$110k) in Nebraska

#1

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Lincoln, Nebraska

#1 in overall quality

$19,663 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska - Lincoln landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Lincoln, Nebraska, and it awarded 342 bachelors’s family, consumer and human sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

UNL also took the #1 spot in our “Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Nebraska - Lincoln is $19,663 for Nebraska Bachelor’s Degree Family, Consumer & Human Sciences students whose families make $75-$110k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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#2

Wayne State College

Wayne, Nebraska

#2 in overall quality

$16,094 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wayne State College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Making $75-$110k list. Located in Wayne, Nebraska, this small public school awarded 20 degrees to qualified bachelors’s family, consumer and human sciences students in 2019-2020.

WSC also made our “Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for WSC is $16,094 for Nebraska Bachelor’s Degree Family, Consumer & Human Sciences students whose families make $75-$110k.

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#3

University of Nebraska at Kearney

Kearney, Nebraska

#3 in overall quality

$18,669 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska at Kearney landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Nebraska at Kearney is a medium-sized public school situated in Kearney, Nebraska. It awarded 45 bachelors’s family, consumer and human sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

UNK also took the #3 spot in our “Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UNK is $18,669 for nebraska bachelor’s degree family, consumer & human sciences students whose families make $75-$110k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences (Income $75-$110k) in the Plains States Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences (Income $75-$110k)

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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