2022 Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Master’s in Massachusetts” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Massachusetts, there were 538 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,088 and $19,710 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 118 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,240 and $41,137 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in family, consumer and human sciences. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great family, consumer and human sciences programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the family, consumer and human sciences program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts

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

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences in Massachusetts

#1

Simmons University

Boston, Massachusetts

#2 in overall quality

$21,698 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Simmons University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts list. Simmons University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Boston, Massachusetts. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 39 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Simmons not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Simmons University are $21,698, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Family, Consumer & Human Sciences at Simmons

#2

Tufts University

Medford, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$55,168 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tufts University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts list. Medford, Massachusetts is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s family, consumer and human sciences degrees to 29 students in 2019-2020.

Tufts also made our “Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Tufts are $55,168, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Tufts Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Report

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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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