The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education designated the Division of Home Economics at OSU as the center for offering a doctoral program in home economics for the state. Plans were immediately initiated to offer a doctorate in food sciences and discussion began on future Ph.D. programs.

By 1978, the college announced that graduate students would be able to choose from four areas of study toward a doctorate, including family and child studies, home economics education and administration, consumer and family environmental studies, and human nutrition and food systems.

Now known as the College of Human Sciences, it offers several graduate degree programs.