2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southwest Region

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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Family & Community Services is the 377th most popular major in the country with 1,263 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Southwest region, there were 64 family & community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 29 family & community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in family & community services. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in family & community services.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 5 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Community Services in the Southwest Region

1

Oklahoma Baptist University
Shawnee, Oklahoma

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oklahoma Baptist University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southwest Region. Oklahoma Baptist University is a small school located in Shawnee, Oklahoma that handed out 6 bachelors’s family and community services degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Family & Community Services at OBU

2

Southwestern Assemblies of God University
Waxahachie, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southwestern Assemblies of God University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southwest Region. This small school is located in Waxahachie, Texas, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s family and community services degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Family & Community Services at Southwestern Assemblies of God University

3

Southern Nazarene University
Bethany, Oklahoma

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Nazarene University landed the #3 spot on the list. Southern Nazarene University is located in Bethany, Oklahoma and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s family and community services degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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 Southern Nazarene University

4

Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas

#23 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Tech University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southwest Region. Lubbock, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s family and community services degrees to 15 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Texas Tech Family & Community Services Report

5

Oklahoma Christian University
Edmond, Oklahoma

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma Christian University landed the #5 spot on the list. This small school is located in Edmond, Oklahoma, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s family and community services degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Family & Community Services at Oklahoma Christian University

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

• *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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