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2022 Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

4 Ranked Colleges
271 Degrees Awarded
$15,900 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the Southeast region, there were 352 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 271 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in family and community services. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great family and community services programs and cost less that 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 Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Community Services in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

University of Florida

Gainesville, Florida
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Florida. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid list. Gainesville, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s family and community services degrees to 122 students in 2019-2020.

UF also made our “Best Family & Community Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $6,302 for southeast region bachelor’s degree family and community services students with aid per year to attend University of Florida.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full University of Florida Family & Community Services Report

#2

East Carolina University

Greenville, North Carolina
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, East Carolina University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Greenville, North Carolina, this large public school awarded 87 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s family and community services students in 2019-2020.

ECU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Family & Community Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for ECU is $15,844 for southeast region bachelor’s degree family and community services students with aid.

Read more about Family & Community Services at ECU

#3

Harding University

Searcy, Arkansas
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harding University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid list. Harding University is a small school located in Searcy, Arkansas that handed out 3 bachelors’s family and community services degrees in 2019-2020.

Harding also took the #2 spot in our “Best Family & Community Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $19,375 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Family and Community Services students with aid per year to attend Harding.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Family & Community Services at Harding University

#4

John Brown University

Siloam Springs, Arkansas
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend John Brown University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid. This small school is located in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s family and community services degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree family and community services students with aid list, JBU has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Family & Community Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for JBU is $21,963 for southeast region bachelor’s degree family and community services students with aid.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Family & Community Services at John Brown University

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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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