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2023 Best Value Child Development & Family Studies Doctor's Degree Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

24 Colleges
$28,863 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Human Development & Family Studies Doctor's Degree School for You

Human Development & Family Studies is the #111 most popular major in the country with 1,589 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Child Development & Family Studies Doctor's Degree Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 24 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for human development students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Human Development & Family Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in the United States

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Human Development & Family Studies Doctor's Degree Colleges.

Top 10 Best Human Development & Family Studies Doctor's Degree Schools

#1

Montclair State University

Montclair, NJ

Our analysis found Montclair State University to be the best value school for human development and family studies students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in the United States. Montclair State is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Montclair.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Montclair State are $13,519 per year.

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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at University of Delaware helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value human development and family studies schools in the United States. UD is a very large public school located in the suburb of Newark.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UD are $18,128 a year.

In addition to its great value ranking, UD is in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Child Development & Family Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools list.

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#3

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, TX

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Texas Tech University is a great value for human development and family studies students working on their doctor’s degree. Texas Tech is a fairly large public school located in the city of Lubbock.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Texas Tech are $17,698 per year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend The University of Texas at Austin. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Child Development & Family Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools list. UT Austin is a fairly large public school located in the city of Austin.

UT Austin graduate students pay an average of $22,944 in tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its great value ranking, UT Austin is in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Child Development & Family Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools list.

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#5

Clemson University

Clemson, SC

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clemson University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Child Development & Family Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools list. Clemson is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Clemson.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Clemson are $23,246 per year.

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#6

Capella University

Minneapolis, MN

With a ranking of #6, Capella University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for human development and family studies students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the city of Minneapolis, Capella University is a private for-profit school with a very large student population.

Capella University graduate students pay an average of $14,784 in tuition and fees each year.

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Texas Woman’s University landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value doctor’s degree human development and family studies programs. Located in the medium-sized city of Denton, TWU is a public college with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at TWU are $15,048 a year.

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Iowa State University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Child Development & Family Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools ranking. Iowa State is a fairly large public school located in the city of Ames.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Iowa State are $26,948 a year.

Iowa State also claimed a spot on our Best Child Development & Family Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools in this category.

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Washington State University landed the #9 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value doctor’s degree human development and family studies programs. Wazzu is a fairly large public school located in the distant town of Pullman.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Wazzu are $28,190 per year.

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#10

University of Georgia

Athens, GA

University of Georgia came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Child Development & Family Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools ranking. Located in the city of Athens, UGA is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UGA are $27,464 a year.

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One of 7 majors within the area of study, human development and family studies has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Food, Nutrition & Related Services 1,214
General Family & Consumer Sciences 368
Family & Consumer Economics 251
Textile & Apparel Studies 150
Human Sciences Business Services 58

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 24 schools only.

  • 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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