2022 Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania 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 Master’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Family, Consumer & Human Sciences is the 21st most popular major in the country with 56,273 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 Pennsylvania, there were 543 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,283 and $23,276 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 67 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Master’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

One of our other unique offerings is College Combat. This tool lets you build your own customized comparisons utilizing the factors that are most important to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania master’s degree family, consumer & human sciences students with aid.

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

#1

Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus

Indiana, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$18,207 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid list. Indiana, Pennsylvania is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s family, consumer and human sciences degrees to 17 students in 2019-2020.

IUP did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at IUP are $18,207.

Read more about Family, Consumer & Human Sciences at IUP

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences in the Middle Atlantic Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences (With Aid)

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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