General Family & Consumer Sciences at Bridgewater College

If you are interested in studying general family and consumer sciences, you may want to check out the program at Bridgewater College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Bridgewater is located in Bridgewater, Virginia and approximately 1,597 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 14 students received a bachelor's degree in consumer science from Bridgewater.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in General Family & Consumer Sciences section at the bottom of this page.

Bridgewater General Family & Consumer Sciences Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Consumer Science

Bridgewater General Family & Consumer Sciences Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks consumer science programs across the country. The following shows how Bridgewater performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The consumer science major at Bridgewater is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Family & Consumer Sciences. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused General Family & Consumer Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools	7
Most Focused General Family & Consumer Sciences Schools	8
Most Popular General Family & Consumer Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools	34
Most Popular General Family & Consumer Sciences Schools	42

Consumer Science Student Demographics at Bridgewater

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the consumer science majors at Bridgewater College.

Bridgewater General Family & Consumer Sciences Bachelor’s Program

Of the 14 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in consumer science from Bridgewater in 2021, 7% were men and 93% were women.

About 64% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in consumer science at Bridgewater are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Bridgewater College with a bachelor's in consumer science.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	9
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Bridgewater also has a doctoral program available in consumer science. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Food, Nutrition & Related Services

Careers That Consumer Science Grads May Go Into

A degree in consumer science can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for VA, the home state for Bridgewater College.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
High School Teachers	26,830	$68,770

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Alma mater under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.