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2022 Best Value Family Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $0-$30k

6 Ranked Colleges
119 Degrees Awarded
$12,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Family Studies Schools for a Bachelor's in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Family Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking.

Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General is the 180th most popular major in the country with 3,362 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 119 general family and consumer sciences/human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 119 general family and consumer sciences/human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,278 and $24,587 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Family Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in general family and consumer sciences/human sciences. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general family and consumer sciences/human sciences programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general family and consumer sciences/human sciences program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Family Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Family Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General (Income $0-$30k) in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

Queens College

Queens, New York
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Queens College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Family Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Queens College is located in Queens, New York and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 49 bachelors’s family studies degrees to qualified students.

QC also took the #2 spot in our “Best Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend QC is $1,255 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree family studies students whose families make $0-$30k.

The low student loan default rate of 4.4% 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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#2

SUNY Oneonta

Oneonta, New York
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY Oneonta. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Family Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Oneonta, New York is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s family studies degrees to 12 students in 2019-2020.

SUNY Oneonta did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for SUNY Oneonta is $11,106 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree family studies students whose families make $0-$30k.

The low student loan default rate of 3.1% 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 full report on Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General at SUNY Oneonta

#3

Montclair State University

Montclair, New Jersey
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Montclair State University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Family Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. This large school is located in Montclair, New Jersey, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s family studies degrees in 2019-2020.

Montclair State also took the #3 spot in our “Best Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Montclair State is $13,072 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree family studies students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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#4

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Princess Anne, Maryland
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maryland Eastern Shore. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Family Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Located in Princess Anne, Maryland, this small public school awarded 36 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s family studies students in 2019-2020.

UMES also made our “Best Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #4. It costs about $13,973 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree family studies students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend UMES.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General at University of Maryland Eastern Shore

#5

Morgan State University

Baltimore, Maryland
#6 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Morgan State University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Family Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Baltimore, Maryland is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s family studies degrees to 18 students in 2019-2020.

Morgan State also made our “Best Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #6. It costs about $14,297 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree family studies students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Morgan State.

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#5 in overall quality

Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus landed the #6 spot on the 2022 Best Value Family Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $0-$30k ranking. Indiana, Pennsylvania is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s family studies degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

IUP also made our “Best Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #5. The estimated yearly cost for Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus is $18,177 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Family Studies students whose families make $0-$30k.

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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