2022 Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Family & Community Services is the 358th most popular major in the country with 1,385 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 72 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 29 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in family and community services. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality family and community services programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the family and community services program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Community Services (Income $30-$48k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$13,326 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. Texas Tech is located in Lubbock, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 11 bachelors’s family and community services degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Texas Tech, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Family & Community Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Texas Tech University is $13,326 for southwest region bachelor’s degree family and community services students whose families make $30-$48k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

Read more about Family & Community Services at Texas Tech University

#2

Oklahoma Baptist University

Shawnee, Oklahoma

#2 in overall quality

$19,373 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma Baptist University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. OBU is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Shawnee, Oklahoma. It awarded 18 bachelors’s family and community services degrees in 2019-2020.

OBU also took the #2 spot in our “Best Family & Community Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend OBU is $19,373 for southwest region bachelor’s degree family and community services students whose families make $30-$48k.

Full OBU Family & Community Services Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Community Services (Income $30-$48k)

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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