by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Maine” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 55,820 people earned their degree in family, consumer and human sciences, making the major the 22nd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, family, consumer and human sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,354 and had an average of $23,570 in loans still to pay off.
Across Maine, there were 91 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,757 and $25,624 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 56 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,463 and $30,985 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Maine” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in family, consumer and human sciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their family, consumer and human sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Maine” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree family, consumer & human sciences students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Orono, Maine, and it awarded 47 bachelors’s family, consumer and human sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New England. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Maine list. Biddeford, Maine is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s family, consumer and human sciences degrees to 9 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of New England Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Report
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