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

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Southwest Region that made our Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest 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

The family, consumer & human sciences doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality family, consumer & human sciences program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on family, consumer & human sciences students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other family, consumer & human sciences students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for family, consumer & human sciences to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• 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 colleges for family, consumer & human sciences students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Southwest Region

Unfortunately , we don't have adequate info to form a ranking of the top quality schools for family, consumer & human sciences in the Southwest Region . This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Southwest Region that both offer family, consumer & human sciences and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

As an alternative, check out 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 schools for a specific state in the Southwest Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	29	22
Arizona	28	3
Oklahoma	26	4
New Mexico	23	1

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Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Human Development & Family Studies	16
General Family & Consumer Sciences	6
Family & Consumer Economics	1

Majors Similar to Family, Consumer & Human Sciences

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Social Sciences	307
English Language & Literature	179
Theology & Religious Vocations	147
Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies	99
Foreign Languages & Linguistics	76
Philosophy & Religious Studies	61
History	60
Communication & Journalism	57
Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities	26

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.