Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that made our Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Family, Consumer & Human Sciences School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of family, consumer & human sciences for getting your doctor's degree school matters. 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

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to family, consumer & human sciences students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of family, consumer & human sciences students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt family, consumer & human sciences students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized family, consumer & human sciences related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for family, consumer & human sciences students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Middle Atlantic Region

Due to missing data, we were not able to show you the family, consumer & human sciences quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that both offer family, consumer & human sciences and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

Instead, look at at some of our other Family, Consumer & Human Sciences rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences ranking.

Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Colleges by State

Explore the best family, consumer & human sciences colleges for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	30	10
Maryland	29	0
Pennsylvania	29	7
New Jersey	28	4
Delaware	21	1

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Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Human Development & Family Studies	41
Food, Nutrition & Related Services	1

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Social Sciences	848
Foreign Languages & Linguistics	281
Theology & Religious Vocations	272
English Language & Literature	243
History	175
Philosophy & Religious Studies	149
Communication & Journalism	86
Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies	68
Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities	21

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 National Cancer Institute. More about our data sources and methodologies.