2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Human Development & Family Studies in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Human Development and Family Studies Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Human Development & Family Studies is the 78th most popular major in the country with 10,072 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Plains States region, there were 595 general human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 general human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,701 and $106,703 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general human development and family studies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general human development and family studies program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Human Development and Family Studies Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Human Development and Family Studies Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region doctor’s degree human development and family studies students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Human Development & Family Studies in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

#1

Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$25,948 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Iowa State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Human Development and Family Studies Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid list. Ames, Iowa is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s human development and family studies degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

Iowa State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Human Development & Family Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Iowa State are $25,948, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on General Human Development & Family Studies at Iowa State

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Human Development & Family Studies (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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