2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences in Maine

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Family, Consumer & Human Sciences is the 22nd most popular major in the country with 55,820 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 32 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,717 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’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. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in family, consumer and human sciences.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Maine

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Maine”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences in Maine

1

University of New England
Biddeford, Maine

#5 overall quality in Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New England. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Maine list. This medium-sized school is located in Biddeford, Maine, and it awarded 22 masters’s family, consumer and human sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Family, Consumer & Human Sciences at University of New England

2

University of Maine
Orono, Maine

#6 overall quality in Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Maine. This fairly large school is located in Orono, Maine, and it awarded 10 masters’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%.

Read full report on Family, Consumer & Human Sciences at University of Maine

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences in the New England Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

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