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2023 Best Value Child Development & Family Studies Graduate Certificate Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

19 Colleges
$24,657 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$42,243 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Human Development & Family Studies Graduate Certificate 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Child Development & Family Studies Graduate Certificate Schools ranking. Our analysis looked at 19 schools in the United States to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for human development students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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 Graduate Certificate Schools in the United States

Check out the human development graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Top 10 Best Human Development & Family Studies Graduate Certificate Schools

#1

Erikson Institute

Chicago, IL

Our analysis found Erikson Institute to be the best value school for human development and family studies students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the United States. Located in the large city of Chicago, The Erikson Institute is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at The Erikson Institute are $20,588 per year.

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#2

Clemson University

Clemson, SC

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Clemson University is a great value for human development and family studies students working on their graduate certificate. 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.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Clemson also is in the top 15% of our Best Child Development & Family Studies Graduate Certificate Schools ranking.

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#3

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, TX

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Texas Tech University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value human development and family studies schools in the United States. Texas Tech is a very large public school located in the large city of Lubbock.

Texas Tech graduate students pay an average of $17,698 in tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Child Development & Family Studies Graduate Certificate Schools list. OSU is a fairly large public school located in the distant town of Stillwater.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at OSU are $24,175 a year.

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#5

Towson University

Towson, MD

A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Towson University is a great value for human development and family studies students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the small city of Towson, Towson is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Towson are $19,890 a year.

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University of North Alabama did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for human development and family studies students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #6 on the list. UNA is a moderately-sized public school located in the city of Florence.

UNA graduate students pay an average of $13,860 in tuition and fees each year.

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#6

Kansas State University

Manhattan, KS

Kansas State University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for human development and family studies students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #6 on the list. K -State is a very large public school located in the city of Manhattan.

K -State graduate students pay an average of $23,949 in tuition and fees each year.

K -State excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Child Development & Family Studies Graduate Certificate Schools list.

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Iowa State University ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Child Development & Family Studies Graduate Certificate Schools list. Iowa State is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Ames.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Iowa State are $26,948 per year.

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#9

University of Georgia

Athens, GA

University of Georgia did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for human development and family studies students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #9 on the list. Located in the midsize city of Athens, UGA is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UGA are $27,464 per year.

In addition to its great value ranking, UGA is in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Child Development & Family Studies Graduate Certificate Schools list.

Full Human Development & Family Studies at University of Georgia Report

With a ranking of #10, Eastern Washington University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for human development and family studies students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the town of Cheney, EWU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at EWU are $28,965 per year.

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Human Development & Family Studies by Region

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New England
Rocky Mountains
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Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

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 19 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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