2022 Best Value Consumer Science Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas For Those Making $48-$75k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Consumer Science Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking.

General Family & Consumer Sciences is the 143rd most popular major in the country with 3,362 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general family and consumer sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $28,585 and had an average of $25,171 in loans still to pay off.

Across Arkansas, there were 97 general family and consumer sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,400 and $23,977 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 19 general family and consumer sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,293 and $39,432 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Consumer Science Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general family and consumer sciences. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general family and consumer sciences programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

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

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Best Value Consumer Science Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for arkansas master’s degree consumer science students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Family & Consumer Sciences (Income $48-$75k) in Arkansas

#1

University of Arkansas

Fayetteville, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

$22,121 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arkansas. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Consumer Science Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas For Those Making $48-$75k list. University of Arkansas is a large public school situated in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It awarded 10 masters’s consumer science degrees in 2019-2020.

UARK also made our “Best General Family & Consumer Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UARK are $22,121.

Read more about General Family & Consumer Sciences at UARK

#2

University of Central Arkansas

Conway, Arkansas

$11,648 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$41,406 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Arkansas. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Consumer Science Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas For Those Making $48-$75k list. Conway, Arkansas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s consumer science degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

UCA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best General Family & Consumer Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Central Arkansas are $11,648.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Family & Consumer Sciences (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Family & Consumer Sciences (Income $48-$75k)

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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