2022 Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania

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In 2019-2020, 56,273 people earned their degree in family, consumer and human sciences, making the major the 21st most popular in the United States. 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 Pennsylvania, there were 543 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,283 and $23,276 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 67 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 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.

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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences in Pennsylvania

#1

Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus

Indiana, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$18,207 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Indiana, Pennsylvania is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s family, consumer and human sciences degrees to 17 students in 2019-2020.

IUP also made our “Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus are $18,207, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Report

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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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