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The Graduate School at the University of Missouri–Columbia (Mizzou)

Human Development & Family Studies Graduate Programs

Contact Information
College of Human Environmental Sciences

About the Programs

Selected in 2002 and again in 2006 as the Most Outstanding Graduate Department on campus, we have a nationally recognized faculty whose research productivity was recently ranked in the top 5% of the 235 family studies programs across the country. Our department houses former editors of the Journal of Social & Personal Relationships. Journal of Marriage and Family, and Family Relations, three of the premier peer-reviewed, academic journals in our field, as well as past presidents of the National Council of Family Relations and the National Association for the Education of Young Children.

Degrees

  • MA and MS in human development and family studies
  • PhD in human environmental sciences