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2023 Best Value Child Development & Family Studies Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Missouri

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$5,110 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$18,645 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Human Development & Family Studies Undergraduate Certificate 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.

The Best Value Child Development & Family Studies Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Missouri 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 Missouri to see which undergraduate certificate 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 Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Missouri

Check out the human development undergraduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Missouri Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking 1 to 4 Years in Child Development & Family Studies

#1

Saint Louis Community College

Saint Louis, MO

Our 2023 rankings named Saint Louis Community College the best value school in Missouri for human development and family studies students working on their undergraduate certificate. Saint Louis Community College is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Saint Louis.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Saint Louis Community College are $5,295 a year.

Full Human Development & Family Studies at Saint Louis Community College Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Ozarks Technical Community College. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Child Development & Family Studies Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Missouri list. OTC is a fairly large public school located in the midsize city of Springfield.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at OTC are $4,924 per year. The average amount in student loans that human development majors at OTC take out while working on their Undergraduate Certificate is $19,986.

Full Human Development & Family Studies at Ozarks Technical Community College Report

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

Explore all the Best Value Human Development & Family Studies Schools 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 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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