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

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.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Georgia to determine which ones were the best for human development & family studies students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 235 bachelor's degrees in human development & family studies to qualified students.

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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 schools for human development & family studies students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Human Development & Family Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in Georgia list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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 Georgia

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

Top Georgia Schools for a Bachelor's in Human Development

1

University of Georgia
Athens, GA

135 Annual Graduates

$31,392 Median Starting Salary

$24,928 Median Student Debt

It's difficult to beat University of Georgia if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in human development & family studies. Located in the city of Athens, UGA is a public university with a very large student population.

Bachelor's recipients from the human development & family studies degree program at University of Georgia earn $2,606 above the typical college graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

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2

Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, GA

57 Annual Graduates

$29,387 Median Starting Salary

$12,585 Median Student Debt

It is difficult to beat Georgia Southern University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in human development & family studies. Located in the town of Statesboro, GaSou is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the human development program state that they receive average early career earnings of $29,387.

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3

Point University
West Point, GA

18 Annual Graduates

$25,578 Median Starting Salary

Point University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in human development & family studies. Point is a small private not-for-profit university located in the town of West Point.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the human development program earn about $25,578 in the first couple years of working.

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Best Human Development & Family Studies Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	225	454
Tennessee	220	174
North Carolina	213	243
Virginia	213	345
South Carolina	195	150
Kentucky	187	62
Alabama	184	327
Louisiana	171	217
Mississippi	169	183
Arkansas	167	88
West Virginia	147	184

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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	192
Adult Development & Aging	22
Child Development	14
Other Human Development, Family Studies, & Related Services	4
Family & Community Services	3

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Textile & Apparel Studies	148
Family & Consumer Economics	107
Housing	29
Food, Nutrition & Related Services	13
General Family & Consumer Sciences	6

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.