2023 Most Well Attended Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 158 people earned their degree in other family and consumer sciences/human sciences, making the major the 867th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 31 other family and consumer sciences/human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 30 other family and consumer sciences/human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other family and consumer sciences/human sciences. To top this list, a school must have a successful other family and consumer sciences/human sciences program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree other family & consumer sciences/human sciences students.

Top 3 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences in the Southeast Region

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Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama

Top 10% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Auburn University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Auburn, Alabama, this large public school handed out 21 degrees to qualified bachelors’s other family and consumer sciences/human sciences students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Auburn Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences Report

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Norfolk State University
Norfolk, Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Norfolk State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s. Norfolk State University is a medium-sized school located in Norfolk, Virginia that handed out 9 bachelors’s other family and consumer sciences/human sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Norfolk State University Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences Report

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The University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee

Top 10% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s. UT Knoxville is a large school located in Knoxville, Tennessee that handed out 0 bachelors’s other family and consumer sciences/human sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences at UT Knoxville

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.