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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Family & Consumer Economics & Related Services Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Other Family & Consumer Economics & Related Services is the 702nd most popular major in the country with 249 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Plains States region, there were 239 other family & consumer economics & related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 230 other family & consumer economics & related services graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,724 and $22,887 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Family & Consumer Economics & Related Services Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in other family & consumer economics & related services. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their other family & consumer economics & related services program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Family & Consumer Economics & Related Services Major in the Plains States Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Family & Consumer Economics & Related Services Major in the Plains States Region”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Family & Consumer Economics & Related Services Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska at Kearney landed the #1 spot on the list. Kearney, Nebraska is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s other family & consumer economics & related services degrees to 34 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Other Family & Consumer Economics & Related Services at University of Nebraska at Kearney
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Family & Consumer Economics & Related Services Major in the Plains States Region list. UNL is a public institution located in Lincoln, Nebraska. The school has a large population, and it awarded 141 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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%.
Full UNL Other Family & Consumer Economics & Related Services Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Family & Consumer Economics & Related Services Major in the Plains States Region. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this large public school handed out 55 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s other family & consumer economics & related services students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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%.
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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
- *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.
