General Family & Consumer Sciences at University of Maryland Eastern Shore

If you plan to study general family and consumer sciences, take a look at what University of Maryland Eastern Shore has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UMES is located in Princess Anne, Maryland and approximately 2,646 students attend the school each year. Of the 382 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Maryland Eastern Shore in 2021, 21 of them were general family and consumer sciences majors.

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.

UMES General Family & Consumer Sciences Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Consumer Science

UMES General Family & Consumer Sciences Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the consumer science progam at UMES compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The consumer science major at UMES 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused General Family & Consumer Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools	5
Most Popular General Family & Consumer Sciences Schools	31
Best General Family & Consumer Sciences Schools	49
	50

Earnings of UMES Consumer Science Graduates

The median salary of consumer science students who receive their bachelor's degree at UMES is $24,925. This is less than $27,726, which is the national average of all consumer science majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Consumer Science Student Demographics at UMES

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the consumer science majors at University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

UMES General Family & Consumer Sciences Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 5% of consumer science bachelor's degrees went to men and 95% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 52% 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 University of Maryland Eastern Shore with a bachelor's in consumer science.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	18
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	0
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

UMES also has a doctoral program available in consumer science. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

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 MD, the home state for University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
High School Teachers	19,330	$72,610
Farm and Home Management Advisors	240	$66,000
Home Economics Professors	60	$76,680

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.