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

a bachelor's degree in human development & family studies is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #39 out of 363 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in North Carolina to determine which ones were the best for human development & family studies students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 217 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. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

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.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

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

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Human Development & Family Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in North Carolina ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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

Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for human development & family studies students seeking a a bachelor's degree.

Top North Carolina Schools for a Bachelor's in Human Development

1

University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC

98 Annual Graduates

$33,878 Median Starting Salary

$15,696 Median Student Debt

It is hard to beat University of North Carolina at Greensboro if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in human development & family studies. UNC Greensboro is a large public university located in the large city of Greensboro.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the human development program earn an average of $33,878 in their early career salary.

More information about a bachelor’s in human development & family studies from University of North Carolina at Greensboro

2

East Carolina University
Greenville, NC

52 Annual Graduates

$29,607 Median Starting Salary

$22,123 Median Student Debt

It is hard to beat East Carolina University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in human development & family studies. ECU is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Greenville.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the human development program report average early career wages of $29,607.

More information about a bachelor’s in human development & family studies from East Carolina University

3

Meredith College
Raleigh, NC

12 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Meredith College if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in human development & family studies. Meredith is a small private not-for-profit college located in the large city of Raleigh.More information about a bachelor’s in human development & family studies from Meredith College

4

Appalachian State University
Boone, NC

39 Annual Graduates

$30,062 Median Starting Salary

Appalachian State University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in human development & family studies. Located in the town of Boone, Appalachian State is a public university with a very large student population.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the human development program state that they receive average early career wages of $30,062.

More information about a bachelor’s in human development & family studies from Appalachian State University

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
Georgia	224	298
Tennessee	220	174
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	98
Child Development	75
Family & Community Services	44

Majors Similar to Human Development

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Textile & Apparel Studies	146
Food, Nutrition & Related Services	117
General Family & Consumer Sciences	74

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.