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2023 Best Value Child Development & Family Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$17,764 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$42,243 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Human Development & Family Studies Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 91 degrees and certificates were awarded to human development and family studies students who went to a Florida college or university. This makes it the #94 most popular major in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Child Development & Family Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Florida 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.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Human Development & Family Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for human development majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Best Florida Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Child Development & Family Studies

#1

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL

Our analysis found University of Florida to be the best value school for human development and family studies students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Florida. UF is a fairly large public school located in the city of Gainesville.

UF graduate students pay an average of $12,737 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UF also made our Best Child Development & Family Studies Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida list, coming in at #1.

Read full report on Human Development & Family Studies at University of Florida

#2

Nova Southeastern University

Fort Lauderdale, FL

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Nova Southeastern University is a great value for human development and family studies students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the suburb of Fort Lauderdale, NUS Florida is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at NUS Florida are $22,790 a year.

Full Human Development & Family Studies at Nova Southeastern University Report

Best Value Human Development & Family Studies Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 29
Georgia 27
North Carolina 49
Tennessee 71
Kentucky 14
Louisiana 3
Alabama 51
South Carolina 64
Mississippi 18
Arkansas 35

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 2 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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