Family, Consumer & Human Sciences isn't the most popular bachelor's program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #20 in popularity out of 38 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Louisiana to determine which ones were the best for family, consumer & human sciences students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 367 bachelor's degrees in family, consumer & human sciences during the 2021-2022 academic year.
Choosing a Great Family, Consumer & Human Sciences School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of family, consumer & human sciences for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to family, consumer & human sciences students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other family, consumer & human sciences students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt family, consumer & human sciences students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized family, consumer & human sciences related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for family, consumer & human sciences students working on their bachelor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Bachelor's Degree Schools in Louisiana ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Family, Consumer & Human Sciences in Louisiana
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in family, consumer & human sciences.
Top Louisiana Schools for a Bachelor's in Family, Consumer & Human Sciences
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).