2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences in New Jersey

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in New Jersey” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 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 doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $80,871 and $95,555 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the family, consumer and human sciences program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in New Jersey” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most 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 Doctorate in New Jersey

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in New Jersey.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences in New Jersey

#1

Montclair State University

Montclair, New Jersey

#1 in overall quality

$18,972 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in New Jersey that were part of this year’s ranking, Montclair State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Montclair, New Jersey is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s family, consumer and human sciences degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

Montclair State also took the #1 spot in our “Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Montclair State University are $18,972, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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

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• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences

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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