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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Connecticut” 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 Connecticut, there were 563 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,233 and $29,277 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 77 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,793 and $40,407 respectively.

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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for connecticut master’s degree family, consumer & human sciences students.

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

#1

University of Bridgeport

Bridgeport, Connecticut

#1 in overall quality

$21,686 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Bridgeport. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut. UBridgeport is a small school located in Bridgeport, Connecticut that handed out 73 masters’s family, consumer and human sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

UBridgeport also took the #1 spot in our “Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UBridgeport are $21,686, 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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