Human Development & Family Studies at University of California - San Diego

If you plan to study human development and family studies, take a look at what University of California - San Diego has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UCSD is located in La Jolla, California and approximately 39,576 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 87 human development majors received their bachelor's degree from UCSD.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Human Development & Family Studies section at the bottom of this page.

UCSD Human Development & Family Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Development

UCSD Human Development & Family Studies Rankings

The human development major at UCSD is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Human Development & Family Studies. 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.

Earnings of UCSD Human Development Graduates

The median salary of human development students who receive their bachelor's degree at UCSD is $25,882. This is less than $29,494, which is the national average of all human development majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Human Development Student Demographics at UCSD

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the human development majors at University of California - San Diego.

UCSD Human Development & Family Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 87 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in human development from UCSD in 2021, 13% were men and 87% were women. The typical human development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 5% men. So male students are more repesented at UCSD since its program graduates 8% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 12% more racial-ethnic minorities in its human development bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of California - San Diego with a bachelor's in human development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	22
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	25
White	27
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	9

UCSD also has a doctoral program available in human development. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

Careers That Human Development Grads May Go Into

A degree in human development can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for University of California - San Diego.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Childcare Workers	60,460	$28,630
Preschool Teachers	52,950	$37,850
Social and Human Service Assistants	50,600	$43,330
Community and Social Service Specialists	13,290	$49,830
Home Economics Professors	170	$93,960

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 Znode at English Wikipedia under License

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