2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General in Virginia

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 “Most Well Attended Family Studies Major in Virginia for a Bachelor’s” ranking.

Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General is the 226th most popular major in the country with 2,906 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Virginia, there were 17 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 17 general family and consumer sciences/human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,553 and $27,844 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Family Studies Major in Virginia for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general family and consumer sciences/human sciences. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in general family and consumer sciences/human sciences.

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Most Well Attended Family Studies Major in Virginia for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia bachelor’s degree family studies students.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General in Virginia

1

Bridgewater College
Bridgewater, Virginia

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Family Studies Major in Virginia for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Bridgewater College landed the #1 spot on the list. Bridgewater is a private not-for-profit institution located in Bridgewater, Virginia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General at Bridgewater

2

Liberty University
Lynchburg, Virginia

#13 overall quality in Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Liberty University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Family Studies Major in Virginia for a Bachelor’s list. Lynchburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s family studies degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

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• Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General in the Southeast Region
• Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General

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.

Credits

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