If you plan on getting your associate degree in family, consumer & human sciences, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #14 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 5 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for family, consumer & human sciences students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 332 associate degrees in family, consumer & human sciences during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Family, Consumer & Human Sciences School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of family, consumer & human sciences for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality family, consumer & human sciences 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 associate 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 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
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their associate degree from the school. After all, your associate 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 much a school focuses on family, consumer & human sciences students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of family, consumer & human sciences students who choose to seek a associate 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 family, consumer & human sciences students go into to obtain their associate 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 family, consumer & human sciences related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for family, consumer & human sciences students working on their associate degree.
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 Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list to help you make the college decision.
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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).
Your choice of family, consumer & human sciences for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality family, consumer & human sciences program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
