Career options for Family and Consumer Science

Many career options for Family and Consumer Science graduates are similar to career opportunities for Social Work graduates. This list includes working for nonprofit organizations and helping elderly people, refugees, large families, or working for hospitals or healthcare centers. Some graduates (usually believers) work for religious organization with the same purpose - help people in need.

Of course, it is not the only option for Family and Consumer Science graduates. A variety of organizations from different areas welcome them - hospitality organizations (hotel and restaurant management), boutiques, fashion consulting firms,nursery schools or retail stores - as you can see, Family and Consumer Science graduates can apply for a job in any area where management skills and empathy are needed.

Many Family and Consumer Science graduates work in education area  as secondary class teachers - some study programs in Family and Consumer Science even include teaching licence, so graduates can start their practice without getting some other certificates.

Master’s degrees in Family and Consumer Science are not very common, but they exist - graduates holding a Master’s degree in this area usually work as university professors.

One of the advantages of Family and Consumer Science is that it can be combined with other disciplines - for example, Psychology or Management. Online study programs in Family and Consumer Science are popular too - they leave the students a possibility to combine their education with work.