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2023 Most Popular Online Child Development & Family Studies Graduate Certificate Schools

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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 Most Popular Online Child Development & Family Studies Graduate Certificate Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 11 schools in the United States to see which ones were the most popular online graduate certificate programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

Check out the online human development graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to attend one of the most popular in the United States.

#1

Clemson University

Clemson, SC

Our 2023 rankings named Clemson University the most popular online school in the United States for human development and family studies students working on their graduate certificate. Clemson is a very large public school located in the suburb of Clemson.

Of the 22 students majoring in human development at Clemson, 32% are male and 68% are female.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Carolina State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Online Child Development & Family Studies Graduate Certificate Schools list. NC State is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Raleigh.

Of the 13 students majoring in human development at NC State, 15% are male and 85% are female.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Commonwealth University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Popular Online Child Development & Family Studies Graduate Certificate Schools list. Located in the medium-sized city of Richmond, VCU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

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The in-demand online graduate certificate programs at Eastern Washington University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best human development and family studies schools in the United States. Located in the town of Cheney, EWU is a public school with a large student population.

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#5

Capella University

Minneapolis, MN

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Capella University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Most Popular Online Child Development & Family Studies Graduate Certificate Schools list. Located in the large city of Minneapolis, Capella University is a private for-profit college with a very large student population.

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A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Oklahoma State University - Main Campus is a great place for human development and family studies students working on their online graduate certificate. OSU is a fairly large public school located in the distant town of Stillwater.

Of the 2 students majoring in human development at OSU, 50% are male and 50% are female.

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#7

Kansas State University

Manhattan, KS

Kansas State University landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the most popular online graduate certificate human development and family studies programs. K -State is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Manhattan.

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#7

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

Michigan State University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular online places for human development and family studies students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #7 on the list. Located in the city of East Lansing, Michigan State is a public college with a fairly large student population.

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#9

Elizabethtown College

Elizabethtown, PA

With a ranking of #9, Elizabethtown College did quite well on this year’s most popular schools for human development and family studies students working on their online graduate certificate. Etown is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Elizabethtown.

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With a ranking of #9, University of Missouri - Columbia did quite well on this year’s most popular schools for human development and family studies students working on their online graduate certificate. Mizzou is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Columbia.

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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 11 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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