General Family & Consumer Sciences is about average in terms of popularity for master's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #176 out of the 343 majors across the country that we analyze each year. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
There was only one school in Iowa to review for the 2025 Best General Family & Consumer Sciences Master's Degree Schools in Iowa ranking. If you would like to see more options to choose from, check out the Best Master's Degree Schools in the United States ranking..
The consumer science school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best General Family & Consumer Sciences Master's Degree Schools in Iowa.
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Iowa State University is a great decision for students interested in a master's degree in general family & consumer sciences. Iowa State is a very large public university located in the small city of Ames.
Students who graduate with their master's from the consumer science program state that they receive average early career wages of $58,434.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
