2025 Best Human Development & Family Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in Indiana

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in human development & family studies, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #39 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Human Development & Family Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in Indiana ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 117 bachelor's degrees in human development & family studies during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

Your choice of human development & family studies for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality human development program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor'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 - How many other human development & family studies students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• 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 bachelor'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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for human development & family studies students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Human Development & Family Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in Indiana list to help you make the college decision.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Human Development & Family Studies in Indiana

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in human development & family studies.

Top Indiana Schools for a Bachelor's in Human Development

1

Purdue University - Main Campus
West Lafayette, IN

57 Annual Graduates

$35,436 Median Starting Salary

$28,841 Median Student Debt

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in human development & family studies has to look into Purdue University - Main Campus. Purdue is a fairly large public university located in the small city of West Lafayette.

Bachelor's recipients from the human development & family studies degree program at Purdue University - Main Campus get $2,787 more than the average college grad with the same degree shortly after graduation.

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Ball State University
Muncie, IN

29 Annual Graduates

$32,836 Median Starting Salary

$23,070 Median Student Debt

Ball State University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in human development & family studies. Ball State is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Muncie.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the human development program earn about $32,836 in their early career salary.

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Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN

12 Annual Graduates

$35,941 Median Starting Salary

$18,346 Median Student Debt

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in human development & family studies needs to check out Indiana State University. Indiana State is a medium-sized public university located in the city of Terre Haute.

Human Development & Family Studies bachelor's degree recipients from Indiana State University get an earnings boost of about $3,292 over the average income of human development & family studies graduates.

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Best Human Development & Family Studies Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Human Development & Family Studies Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	261	472
Ohio	252	497
Illinois	241	330
Wisconsin	213	266

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Rankings in Majors Related to Human Development

Human Development & Family Studies is one of 8 different types of Family, Consumer & Human Sciences programs to choose from.

Human Development Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Human Development & Family Studies	75
Family Systems	30
Child Development	11
Other Human Development, Family Studies, & Related Services	1

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Textile & Apparel Studies	86
Human Sciences Business Services	25
Food, Nutrition & Related Services	5
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).
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