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General Family & Consumer Sciences at Purdue University - Main Campus

General Family & Consumer Sciences at Purdue University - Main Campus

If you plan to study general family & consumer sciences, take a look at what Purdue University - Main Campus has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Purdue is located in West Lafayette, Indiana and approximately 46,655 students attend the school each year.

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.

Purdue General Family & Consumer Sciences Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Consumer Science

Purdue General Family & Consumer Sciences Rankings

The consumer science major at Purdue 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.

Consumer Science Student Demographics at Purdue

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the consumer science majors at Purdue University - Main Campus.

Purdue General Family & Consumer Sciences Bachelor’s Program

75% Women
For the most recent academic year available, 25% of consumer science bachelor's degrees went to men and 75% went to women.

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About 100% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in consumer science at Purdue 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 Purdue University - Main Campus with a bachelor's in consumer science.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 0
White 4
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 0

Concentrations Within General Family & Consumer Sciences

If you plan to be a consumer science major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Purdue University - Main Campus. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General 5

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 IN, the home state for Purdue University - Main Campus.

Occupation Jobs in IN Average Salary in IN
High School Teachers 19,690 $53,030
Farm and Home Management Advisors 550 $45,730

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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