2022 Best Value Consumer Science Schools for an Associate in California For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Consumer Science Schools for an Associate in California For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 California, there were 905 general family and consumer sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,067 and $18,946 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 25 general family and consumer sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,451 and $19,634 respectively.

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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general family and consumer sciences program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The consumer science school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Consumer Science Schools for an Associate in California For Those Getting Aid”.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Value Consumer Science Schools for an Associate in California For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Consumer Science Schools for an Associate in California For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Family & Consumer Sciences in California (With Aid)

#1

San Joaquin Delta College

Stockton, California

#1 in overall quality

$10,599 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Consumer Science Schools for an Associate in California For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, San Joaquin Delta College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Stockton, California, this fairly large public school handed out 8 degrees to qualified associates’s consumer science students in 2019-2020.

Delta also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Family & Consumer Sciences Associate Degree Schools in California” ranking. The yearly cost to attend San Joaquin Delta College is $10,599 for California Associate Degree Consumer Science students with aid.

Read more about General Family & Consumer Sciences at Delta

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Family & Consumer Sciences (With Aid)

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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