2023 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General in the Southeast Region

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In 2020-2021, 2,906 people earned their degree in general family and consumer sciences/human sciences, making the major the 226th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 859 general family and consumer sciences/human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 general family and consumer sciences/human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Family Studies Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate” 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 the Southeast Region for a Doctorate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Family Studies Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate”.

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General in the Southeast Region

1

Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida

#23 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Florida State University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Family Studies Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate. This large school is located in Tallahassee, Florida, and it awarded 5 doctorate’s family studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Florida State Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General Report

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Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Family Studies Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Mississippi State, Mississippi is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s family studies degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General at Mississippi State University

• Most Popular Doctor’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.

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