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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$7,751 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$42,736 Avg Salary

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

Human Development & Family Studies is the #73 most popular major in Nebraska with 97 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one 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.

The Best Value Child Development & Family Studies Master's Degree Schools in Nebraska ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Nebraska 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.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for human development majors pursuing a master's degree.

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

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

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UNL are $7,751 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UNL is ranked #1 for overall quality for human development in Nebraska.

Read full report on Human Development & Family Studies at University of Nebraska - Lincoln

The excellent master’s degree programs at Concordia University, Nebraska helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value human development and family studies schools in Nebraska. Located in the distant town of Seward, Concordia University, Nebraska is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Concordia University, Nebraska are $8,650 per year.

Full Human Development & Family Studies at Concordia University, Nebraska Report

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
Missouri 320
Minnesota 232
Kansas 196
Iowa 222
North Dakota 192
South Dakota 75

One of 7 majors within the area of study, human development and family studies has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Human Development

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 2 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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