General Family & Consumer Sciences at Northwestern State University of Louisiana

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

NSU is located in Natchitoches, Louisiana and has a total student population of 11,447. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 3 students received a bachelor's degree in consumer science from NSU.

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.

NSU General Family & Consumer Sciences Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Consumer Science

Online Classes Are Available at NSU

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? NSU offers distance education options for consumer science at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

NSU General Family & Consumer Sciences Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the consumer science progam at NSU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The consumer science major at NSU 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
	54
Most Focused General Family & Consumer Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools	56

Earnings of NSU Consumer Science Graduates

The median salary of consumer science students who receive their bachelor's degree at NSU is $24,820. This is less than $27,726, which is the national average of all consumer science majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Consumer Science Student Demographics at NSU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the consumer science majors at Northwestern State University of Louisiana.

NSU General Family & Consumer Sciences Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 33% of consumer science bachelor's degrees went to men and 67% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 18% more racial-ethnic minorities in its consumer science bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Northwestern State University of Louisiana with a bachelor's in consumer science.

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

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

Related Majors

• Human Development & Family Studies

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 LA, the home state for Northwestern State University of Louisiana.

Occupation	Jobs in LA	Average Salary in LA
High School Teachers	13,930	$51,810

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 Fitzed under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.