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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Massachusetts” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 1,263 people earned their degree in family & community services, making the major the 377th most popular in the United States.
Across Massachusetts, there were 13 family & community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 family & community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,973 and $23,950 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Massachusetts” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in family & community services. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their family & community services program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Massachusetts” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.
Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Massachusetts
The colleges and universities below are the best for massachusetts bachelor’s degree family and community services students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Merrimack College landed the #1 spot on the list. 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 0 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Family & Community Services at Merrimack College
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Curry College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Massachusetts list. Located in Milton, Massachusetts, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 13 degrees to qualified bachelors’s family and community services students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Family & Community Services at Curry College
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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