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2023 Best Value Child Development & Family Studies Master's Degree Schools in Missouri

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$9,090 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$42,736 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Human Development & Family Studies Master's Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, 320 degrees and certificates were awarded to human development and family studies students who went to a Missouri college or university. This makes it the #57 most popular major in the state.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Child Development & Family Studies Master's Degree Schools in Missouri to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Missouri to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for human development students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Human Development & Family Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Missouri

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Human Development & Family Studies Master's Degree Colleges.

Best Missouri Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Child Development & Family Studies

Our 2023 rankings named Missouri State University - Springfield the best value school in Missouri for human development and family studies students working on their master’s degree. Located in the city of Springfield, Missouri State is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Missouri State graduate students pay an average of $6,858 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Missouri. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Child Development & Family Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Missouri list. UCM is a fairly large public school located in the distant town of Warrensburg.

UCM graduate students pay an average of $9,156 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Human Development & Family Studies at University of Central Missouri Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Missouri - Columbia. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Child Development & Family Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Missouri list. Located in the city of Columbia, Mizzou is a public school with a very large student population.

Mizzou graduate students pay an average of $11,255 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Mizzou also made our Best Child Development & Family Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Missouri list, coming in at #4.

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Best Value Human Development & Family Studies Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Human Development & Family Studies Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Minnesota 232
Kansas 196
Iowa 222
Nebraska 97
North Dakota 192
South Dakota 75

Human Development & Family Studies is one of 7 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Food, Nutrition & Related Services 4,858
Textile & Apparel Studies 3,313
General Family & Consumer Sciences 2,906
Family & Consumer Economics 1,454
Human Sciences Business Services 704

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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