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Most Popular Child Development & Family Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

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2023 Most Popular Child Development & Family Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

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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're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Most Popular Child Development & Family Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in the Southwest Region to see which doctor's degree programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Human Development & Family Studies program at each school on the list.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for human development majors pursuing a doctor's degree.

Our 2023 rankings named Texas Woman’s University the most popular school in the Southwest Region for human development and family studies students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the city of Denton, TWU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

About 93% of the students majoring in human development at the school are women while 7% are male.

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The in-demand doctor’s degree programs at The University of Texas at Austin helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular human development and family studies schools in the Southwest Region . UT Austin is a fairly large public school located in the city of Austin.

Women make up 67% of the human development majors at the school.

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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 place for human development and family studies students working on their doctor’s degree. Texas Tech is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Lubbock.

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A rank of #4 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 doctor’s degree. OSU is a very large public school located in the distant town of Stillwater.

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Best Human Development & Family Studies Colleges by State

Explore the best human development and family studies schools for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 148
Arizona 31
Oklahoma 45

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 4 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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