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

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Human Development & Family Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in Connecticut ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 296 bachelor's degrees in human development & family studies to qualified students.

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Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

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 complete 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 Connecticut list to help you make the college decision.

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

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in human development & family studies.

Top Connecticut Schools for a Bachelor's in Human Development

1

University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT

149 Annual Graduates

$31,642 Median Starting Salary

$40,316 Median Student Debt

Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in human development & family studies needs to look into University of Connecticut. Located in the town of Storrs, UCONN is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Soon after graduating, human development bachelor's recipients typically make an average of $31,642 in their early careers.

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2

Post University
Waterbury, CT

96 Annual Graduates

$31,627 Median Starting Salary

Post University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in human development & family studies. Post University is a very large private for-profit university located in the city of Waterbury.

After graduation, human development bachelor's recipients generally earn around $31,627 in the first five years of their career.

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Best Human Development & Family Studies Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Human Development & Family Studies Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

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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

Most Popular Majors Related to Human Development

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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