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2023 Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools in Colorado

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$12,188 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$34,640 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences School for You

With 503 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, family, consumer and human sciences is the #26 most popular major in Colorado.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools in Colorado ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision.

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.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Colleges.

Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences School

$12,188 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Colorado State University - Fort Collins the best value school in Colorado for family, consumer and human sciences students. Colorado State is a very large public school located in the city of Fort Collins.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Colorado State are $12,188 a year. Family, Consumer & Human Sciences majors at Colorado State take out an average of $21,186 in student loans while working on their egree. When it comes time to repay the loan, graduates who are on a 10-year repayment plan pay an average monthly payment of $440.

Colorado State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools in Colorado list.

Full Family, Consumer & Human Sciences at Colorado State University - Fort Collins Report

Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

Explore all the Best Value Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Utah 985
Montana 203
Idaho 621
Wyoming 32

Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Human Development & Family Studies 42,112
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
Housing 302
Family, Consumer & Human Sciences (Other) 158

Related Major Annual Graduates
Education 327,871
Social Sciences 205,984
Psychology 195,678
Communication & Journalism 120,571
History 32,731

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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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