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

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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 Georgia, there were 3,047 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,306 and $27,515 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 113 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,186 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Georgia” 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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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Georgia

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

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

1

Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah, Georgia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Georgia that were part of this year’s ranking, Savannah College of Art and Design landed the #1 spot on the list. Savannah, Georgia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s family, consumer and human sciences degrees to 67 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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2

University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

#3 overall quality in Georgia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Georgia that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Georgia landed the #2 spot on the list. Athens, Georgia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s family, consumer and human sciences degrees to 46 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full University of Georgia 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

• *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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