Best Human Development & Family Studies Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Southeast Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Southeast Region that made our Best Human Development & Family Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Human Development & Family Studies School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of human development & family studies for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality human development program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to human development & family studies students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of human development & family studies students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt human development & family studies students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized human development & family studies related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for human development & family studies students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Southeast Region

Sadly , we did not have adequate info to make a ranking of the quality schools for human development & family studies in the Southeast Region . This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Southeast Region that both offer human development & family studies and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

As an alternative, look at at some of our other Human Development & Family Studies rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Human Development & Family Studies ranking.

Best Human Development & Family Studies Colleges by State

Explore the best human development & family studies colleges for a specific state in the Southeast Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Virginia	127	5
Georgia	126	2
North Carolina	115	4
Mississippi	113	2
Tennessee	102	5
Alabama	98	3
South Carolina	91	4
Kentucky	87	4

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Rankings in Majors Related to Human Development

One of 8 majors within the Family, Consumer & Human Sciences area of study, Human Development & Family Studies has other similar majors worth exploring.

Human Development Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Human Development & Family Studies	22
Family & Community Services	6
Other Human Development, Family Studies, & Related Services	2

Most Popular Majors Related to Human Development

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Food, Nutrition & Related Services	10
Textile & Apparel Studies	7
Housing	6
General Family & Consumer Sciences	4

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jsonin. More about our data sources and methodologies.