2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Community Services (Income $48-$75k) in the New England Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 New England Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 1,385 people earned their degree in family and community services, making the major the 358th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 49 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 48 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,041 and $24,492 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality family and community services programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the family and community services program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Community Services (Income $48-$75k) in the New England Region

#1

Merrimack College

North Andover, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$30,433 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Merrimack College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $48-$75k. North Andover, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s family and community services degrees to 35 students in 2019-2020.

Merrimack not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Family & Community Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Merrimack is $30,433 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Family and Community Services students whose families make $48-$75k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Family & Community Services at Merrimack College

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Community Services (Income $48-$75k)

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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