2023 Most Well Attended Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Iowa for a Master’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Iowa for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Iowa, there were 584 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,886 and $21,154 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 27 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,865 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Iowa for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in family, consumer and human sciences. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in family, consumer and human sciences.

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Most Well Attended Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Iowa for a Master’s

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

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

1

Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa

#1 overall quality in Iowa

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Iowa State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Iowa for a Master’s list. Located in Ames, Iowa, this large public school handed out 27 diplomas to qualified masters’s family, consumer and human sciences students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Iowa State Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Report

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Graceland University - Lamoni
Lamoni, Iowa

#17 overall quality in Iowa

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Graceland University - Lamoni. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in Iowa for a Master’s. Lamoni, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s family, consumer and human sciences degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Full Graceland University - Lamoni 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.

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