2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southeast Region
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Family & Community Services is the 377th most popular major in the country with 1,263 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 325 family & community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 218 family & community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 12 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in family & community services. That schools that top this list have a program in family & community services in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree family and community services students.
Out of the 12 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, John Brown University landed the #1 spot on the list. John Brown University is located in Siloam Springs, Arkansas and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 19 bachelors’s family and community services degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Family & Community Services at John Brown University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern University at New Orleans. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southeast Region. SUNO is a small school located in New Orleans, Louisiana that handed out 18 bachelors’s family and community services degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Family & Community Services at SUNO
Out of the 12 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Johnson University landed the #3 spot on the list. Johnson University is located in Knoxville, Tennessee and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 7 bachelors’s family and community services degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Full Johnson University Family & Community Services Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ouachita Baptist University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 5 degrees to qualified bachelors’s family and community services students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Family & Community Services at Ouachita Baptist University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend East Carolina University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southeast Region. Greenville, North Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s family and community services degrees to 50 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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 ECU
University of Florida landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southeast Region ranking. UF is a large public school situated in Gainesville, Florida. It awarded 91 bachelors’s family and community services degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Family & Community Services at UF
Toccoa Falls College ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southeast Region list. Toccoa Falls is a small school located in Toccoa Falls, Georgia that handed out 0 bachelors’s family and community services degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Toccoa Falls Family & Community Services Report
University of Miami came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Coral Gables, Florida is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s family and community services degrees to 17 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Family & Community Services at U Miami
The University of Alabama landed the #9 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, this large public school handed out 10 degrees to qualified bachelors’s family and community services students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Family & Community Services at UA
Harding University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #10. Harding is a private not-for-profit institution located in Searcy, Arkansas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Harding Family & Community Services Report
Auburn University ranked #11 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southeast Region list. Auburn University is a large school located in Auburn, Alabama that handed out 1 bachelors’s family and community services degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Family & Community Services at Auburn University
Columbia College did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #12. Columbia, South Carolina is the setting for this small 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 low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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 more about Family & Community Services at Columbia 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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