2023 Best Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly for Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 149 other family and consumer sciences/human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences for a Bachelor’s” 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Veteran Friendly for Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences for a Bachelor’s

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

Top 2 Best Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

1

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

1 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Utah. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences for a Bachelor’s list. Salt Lake City, Utah is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s other family and consumer sciences/human sciences degrees to 106 students in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at U of U, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 1 of the 33,081 students enrolled at U of U were GI Bill® students, of which 0 were 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. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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

2

Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama

1,499 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Auburn University landed the #2 spot on the list. Auburn University is located in Auburn, Alabama and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 21 bachelors’s other family and consumer sciences/human sciences degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree vets studying other family & consumer sciences/human sciences list, Auburn has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Other Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 1,499 of the 30,737 students enrolled at Auburn were GI Bill® students, of which 746 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $8,423. In addition to receiving other benefits, 68 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. 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%.

Full Auburn University Veteran Student Life Report

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.