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2022 Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania

1 Ranked Colleges
$38,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent family, consumer and human sciences programs, but they also cost less that 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania

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

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

#1

Pennsylvania State University - University Park

University Park, Pennsylvania
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Pennsylvania State University - University Park. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in Pennsylvania.

Penn State University Park not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Doctor’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 Pennsylvania State University - University Park are $38,728.

Read full report on Family, Consumer & Human Sciences at Penn State University Park

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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