2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Great Lakes Region
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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 Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Great Lakes Region” 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 the Great Lakes region, there were 253 family & community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 family & community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,182 and $43,142 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree family and community services students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Great Lakes Region. University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point is a public institution located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 12 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point Family & Community Services Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Michigan State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in East Lansing, Michigan, this large public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified masters’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 92%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Family & Community Services at Michigan State University
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Michigan University landed the #3 spot on the list. Kalamazoo, Michigan is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s family and community services degrees to 1 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Family & Community Services at WMU
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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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