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2023 Best Value General Family & Consumer Sciences Master's Degree Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$10,207 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$43,080 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Family & Consumer Sciences Master's Degree School for You

With 130 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, general family and consumer sciences is the #145 most popular major in Illinois.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value General Family & Consumer Sciences Master's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Illinois to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for consumer science students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

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

2023 Best Value General Family & Consumer Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois

Check out the consumer science master's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in General Family & Consumer Sciences

Our 2023 rankings named Illinois State University the best value school in Illinois for general family and consumer sciences students working on their master’s degree. Located in the medium-sized suburb of Normal, Illinois State is a public school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Illinois State are $9,773 per year.

Illinois State also made our Best General Family & Consumer Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois list, coming in at #5.

Full General Family & Consumer Sciences at Illinois State University Report

#2

Eastern Illinois University

Charleston, IL

The excellent master’s degree programs at Eastern Illinois University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value general family and consumer sciences schools in Illinois. EIU is a medium-sized public school located in the distant town of Charleston.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at EIU are $10,640 a year.

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Best Value General Family & Consumer Sciences Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value General Family & Consumer Sciences Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 0
Ohio 32
Indiana 10
Wisconsin 26

One of 7 majors within the area of study, general family and consumer sciences has other similar majors worth exploring.

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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to National Cancer Institute.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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