2023 Best Value General Family & Consumer Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools
Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices
Finding the Best General Family & Consumer Sciences Graduate Certificate School for You
General Family & Consumer Sciences is the #171 most popular major in the country with 2,906 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.
When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for students. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value General Family & Consumer Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for consumer science students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
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. 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.
For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
Best Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in General Family & Consumer Sciences
Our 2023 rankings named Iowa State University the best value school in the United States for general family and consumer sciences students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the small city of Ames, Iowa State is a public college with a very large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Iowa State are $26,948 per year.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kentucky. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value General Family & Consumer Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools list. UK is a very large public school located in the large city of Lexington.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UK are $33,548 a year.
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Majors Related to Consumer Science
General Family & Consumer Sciences is one of 7 different types of programs to choose from.
Majors Similar to Consumer Science
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Human Development & Family Studies | 42,112 |
| Food, Nutrition & Related Services | 4,858 |
| Textile & Apparel Studies | 3,313 |
| 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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