Human Development & Family Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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

UIUC is located in Champaign, Illinois and approximately 52,679 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 73 students received a bachelor's degree in human development from UIUC.

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.

UIUC Human Development & Family Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Development

UIUC Human Development & Family Studies Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks human development programs across the country. The following shows how UIUC performed in these rankings.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The human development major at UIUC 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Child Development & Family Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	203

Earnings of UIUC Human Development Graduates

The median salary of human development students who receive their bachelor's degree at UIUC is $32,802. This is 11% higher than $29,494, which is the national average for all human development bachelor's degree recipients.

Human Development Student Demographics at UIUC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the human development majors at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

UIUC Human Development & Family Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 73 human development students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from UIUC, about 11% were men and 89% were women. The typical human development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 5% men. So male students are more repesented at UIUC since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 9% 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 Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor's in human development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	9
Black or African American	11
Hispanic or Latino	24
White	25
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

UIUC 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 IL, the home state for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Preschool Teachers	24,120	$31,500
Childcare Workers	17,440	$24,250
Social and Human Service Assistants	13,080	$32,910
Community and Social Service Specialists	2,990	$38,900
Farm and Home Management Advisors	190	$37,960

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 Beyond My ken under License

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