2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences in Kentucky

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Kentucky” 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 Kentucky, there were 1,217 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,457 and $22,138 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 32 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,847 and $34,311 respectively.

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.

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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Master’s in Kentucky” list to help you make the college decision.

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

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

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

#1

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky

#1 in overall quality

$33,216 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Kentucky landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Lexington, Kentucky, this large public school handed out 25 degrees to qualified masters’s family, consumer and human sciences students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UK, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in Kentucky” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Kentucky are $33,216, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Family, Consumer & Human Sciences at UK

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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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