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General Family & Consumer Sciences at Texas Tech University

General Family & Consumer Sciences at Texas Tech University

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

Texas Tech is located in Lubbock, Texas and has a total student population of 40,322.

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.

Texas Tech General Family & Consumer Sciences Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Consumer Science

Texas Tech General Family & Consumer Sciences Rankings

The consumer science major at Texas Tech 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 Texas Tech

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the consumer science majors at Texas Tech University.

Texas Tech General Family & Consumer Sciences Bachelor’s Program

88% Women
44% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 12% of consumer science bachelor's degrees went to men and 88% went to women.

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About 55% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in consumer science at Texas Tech 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 Texas Tech University with a bachelor's in consumer science.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 9
Black or African American 32
Hispanic or Latino 105
White 210
International Students 2
Other Races/Ethnicities 22

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 Texas Tech University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General 252

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 TX, the home state for Texas Tech University.

Occupation Jobs in TX Average Salary in TX
High School Teachers 110,420 $58,190
Farm and Home Management Advisors 180 $28,570
Home Economics Professors 140 $63,860

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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