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2022 Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid

1 Ranked Colleges
8 Degrees Awarded
$55,200 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 Massachusetts, there were 538 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,088 and $19,710 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,213 and $99,210 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent family, consumer and human sciences programs, but they also 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for massachusetts doctor’s degree family, consumer & human sciences students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences in Massachusetts (With Aid)

#1

Tufts University

Medford, Massachusetts
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tufts University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid list. Tufts University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Medford, Massachusetts. It awarded 5 doctorate’s family, consumer and human sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Tufts, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Tufts University are $55,168, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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.

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