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General Family & Consumer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin

General Family & Consumer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin

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

UT Austin is located in Austin, Texas and has a total student population of 50,476.

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.

UT Austin General Family & Consumer Sciences Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Consumer Science

UT Austin General Family & Consumer Sciences Rankings

The consumer science major at UT Austin 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 UT Austin

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

UT Austin General Family & Consumer Sciences Bachelor’s Program

67% Women
56% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 33% of consumer science bachelor's degrees went to men and 67% went to women. The typical consumer science bachelor's degree program is made up of only 14% men. So male students are more repesented at UT Austin since its program graduates 20% more men than average.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 9% 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 The University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's in consumer science.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 3
Black or African American 1
Hispanic or Latino 1
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 table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at The University of Texas at Austin. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General 11

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 The University of Texas at Austin.

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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