The main focus area for this major is General Human Development & Family Studies. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Human Development & Family Studies is a major offered under the family, consumer and human sciences program of study at Purdue University - Main Campus. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the master’s degree program in human development, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, and more.
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In 2019-2020, the average part-time graduate tuition at Purdue was $948 per credit hour for out-of-state students. The average for in-state students was $348 per credit hour. Information about average full-time graduate student tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $9,208 | $28,010 |
Fees | $784 | $784 |
Purdue does not offer an online option for its human development master’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Purdue Online Learning page.
Women made up around 85.7% of the human development students who took home a master’s degree in 2019-2020. This is less than the nationwide number of 90.9%.
Of those graduates who received a master’s degree in human development at Purdue in 2019-2020, 28.6% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 33%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 0 |
Black or African American | 1 |
Hispanic or Latino | 0 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 3 |
International Students | 2 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 1 |
Human Development & Family Studies students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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General Human Development & Family Studies | 7 |
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Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Textile & Apparel Studies | 3 |
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*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.