2025 Best General Family & Consumer Sciences Schools in Iowa
1College in Iowa
34Consumer Science Degrees Awarded
$35,479Avg Early-Career Salary
General Family & Consumer Sciences is about average in terms of popularity for degree programs. That is, it ranks #168 out of the 395 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
There was only one school in Iowa to review for the 2025 Best General Family & Consumer Sciences Schools in Iowa ranking.
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Best Schools for General Family & Consumer Sciences in Iowa
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the consumer science degree levels they offer.
Iowa State University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in general family & consumer sciences. Iowa State is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Ames.
Degree recipients from the general family & consumer sciences degree program at Iowa State University get $8,867 more than the standard college grad with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
