Graduate student degree completion and research has been collected annually since 1992. This year’s data collection began with an e‐mail invitation to 593 institutional contacts at 165 U.S. universities and colleges in June 2022. This e‐mail requested information on family and consumer sciences graduate degrees and research completed in 2021. A total of 150 master’s theses, 122 doctoral dissertations, and 664 non‐thesis master’s degrees were conferred in 2021 from family and consumer sciences programs. This review reports not only degree completion, but also highlights the topical trends of theses and dissertations completed within family and consumer sciences programs.

Graduate student degree completion and research has been collected annually since 1992. This year's data collection began with an e‐mail invitation to 593 institutional contacts at 165 U.S. universities and colleges in June 2022. This e‐mail requested information on family and consumer sciences graduate degrees and research completed in 2021. A total of 150 master's theses, 122 doctoral dissertations, and 664 non‐thesis master's degrees were conferred in 2021 from family and consumer sciences programs. This report presents the submitted information on theses and dissertations categorized into 16 subject‐matter categories by degree level.