2023 Best Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences Colleges for Veterans

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly for Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences is the 867th most popular major in the country with 158 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in other family and consumer sciences/human sciences. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent other family and consumer sciences/human sciences programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the other family and consumer sciences/human sciences program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Veteran Friendly for Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences”.

Top 2 Best Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences Colleges for Veterans

1

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

1 GI Bill® Students**

YES Student Veterans Organization

$60,590 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Utah landed the #1 spot on the list. U of U is located in Salt Lake City, Utah and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 106 ’s other family and consumer sciences/human sciences degrees to qualified students.

U of U also took the #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] spot in our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” ranking.According to our most recent data, University of Utah supports 33,081 students, and 1 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 0 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $0. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. University of Utah does offer credit for military training for eligible students.

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 [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

[Read full report on veteran student life at University of Utah]](/colleges/university-of-utah/student-life/veterans/)

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Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama

1,499 GI Bill® Students**

YES Student Veterans Organization

$8,423 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Auburn University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences list. Located in Auburn, Alabama, this large public school handed out 22 degrees to qualified ’s other family and consumer sciences/human sciences students in 2020-2021.

Auburn also took the #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] spot in our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” ranking.According to our most recent data, Auburn University supports 30,737 students, and 1,499 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 746 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $8,423. To help with additional expenses, 68 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Auburn University offers credit for military training for eligible students.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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).
• Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
• 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.
• **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
• 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.