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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences in New Jersey (With Aid)

1 Ranked Colleges
406 Degrees Awarded
$18,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Bachelor's in New Jersey For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 56,273 people earned their degree in family, consumer and human sciences, making the major the 21st most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, family, consumer and human sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $29,430 and had an average of $24,438 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Jersey, there were 541 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,833 and $28,006 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 406 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,288 and $24,807 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality family, consumer and human sciences programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the family, consumer and human sciences program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences in New Jersey (With Aid)

#1

Montclair State University

Montclair, New Jersey
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Montclair State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey For Those Getting Aid list. Montclair, New Jersey is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s family, consumer and human sciences degrees to 385 students in 2019-2020.

Montclair State also made our “Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Montclair State University is $18,034 for New Jersey Bachelor’s Degree Family, Consumer & Human Sciences students with aid.

The low student loan default rate of 4.6% 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%.

Read more about Family, Consumer & Human Sciences at Montclair State

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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