Best General Human Development & Family Studies Associate Degree Colleges in Pennsylvania

Unfortunately, there were no schools in Pennsylvania that made our Best General Human Development & Family Studies Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great General Human Development & Family Studies School for Your Associate Degree

The human development and family studies associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general human development & family studies students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other general human development & family studies students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general human development & family studies related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general human development & family studies students working on their associate degree.

Insufficient Data for Pennsylvania

On account of missing data, we couldn't show you the general human development & family studies quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in Pennsylvania that both offer general human development & family studies and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

Instead, check out at some of our other General Human Development & Family Studies rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for General Human Development & Family Studies ranking.

Best General Human Development & Family Studies Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best General Human Development & Family Studies Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	429	10

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Rankings in Majors Related to Human Development and Family Studies

One of 10 majors within the Human Development & Family Studies area of study, General Human Development & Family Studies has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Human Development and Family Studies

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Child Care Provider/Assistant	57
Child Development	44
Child Care & Support Services Management	23
Adult Development & Aging	10
Early Childhood and Family Studies	1

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jsonin. More about our data sources and methodologies.