2022 Best Value Human Development Schools for a Doctorate in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Schools for a Doctorate in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Human Development & Family Studies is the 41st most popular major in the country with 41,651 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, human development and family studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $27,032 and had an average of $24,110 in loans still to pay off.

Across Mississippi, there were 654 human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $17,783 and $21,684 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 human development and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,708 and $105,501 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality human development and family studies programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Human Development Schools for a Doctorate in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Human Development Schools for a Doctorate in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Human Development Schools for a Doctorate in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Human Development & Family Studies in Mississippi (With Aid)

#1

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$23,950 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Human Development Schools for a Doctorate in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Mississippi State, Mississippi is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s human development degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Mississippi State, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Human Development & Family Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Mississippi State University are $23,950.

Full Mississippi State University Human Development & Family Studies Report

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Human Development & Family Studies in the Southeast Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for 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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