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Ranked Colleges
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Plains States Region” ranking.
Family & Community Services is the 377th most popular major in the country with 1,263 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Plains States region, there were 84 family & community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 59 family & community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,724 and $22,887 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Plains States Region” 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.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Plains States 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 Plains States Region”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Northern Iowa landed the #1 spot on the list. Cedar Falls, Iowa is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s family and community services degrees to 36 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Family & Community Services at University of Northern Iowa
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Iowa State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Plains States Region. Iowa State is a large school located in Ames, Iowa that handed out 23 bachelors’s family and community services degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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 Iowa State 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%.
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- *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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