2022 Best Value Family Studies Schools for an Associate For Those Making $75-$110k

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 “Best Value Family Studies Schools for an Associate For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 56 general family and consumer sciences/human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Family Studies Schools for an Associate For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general family and consumer sciences/human sciences program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Family Studies Schools for an Associate For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Family Studies Schools for an Associate For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General (Income $75-$110k)

#1

San Joaquin Delta College

Stockton, California

#1 in overall quality

$15,785 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend San Joaquin Delta College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Family Studies Schools for an Associate For Those Making $75-$110k list. San Joaquin Delta College is a public institution located in Stockton, California. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 8 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Delta also made our “Best Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General Associate Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend San Joaquin Delta College is $15,785 for associate degree family studies students whose families make $75-$110k.

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#2

Vincennes University

Vincennes, Indiana

#2 in overall quality

$14,724 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vincennes University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Family Studies Schools for an Associate For Those Making $75-$110k list. Vincennes, Indiana is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s family studies degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

Vincennes University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General Associate Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Vincennes University is $14,724 for Associate Degree Family Studies students whose families make $75-$110k.

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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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