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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 Southwest region, there were 64 family & community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 25 family & community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southwest 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Family & Community Services in the Southwest Region

1

Lubbock Christian University
Lubbock, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lubbock Christian University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southwest Region. Lubbock Christian University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Lubbock, Texas. It awarded 5 masters’s family and community services 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%.

Read full report on Family & Community Services at LCU

2

Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#14 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Tempe. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southwest Region list. Tempe, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s family and community services degrees to 20 students in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Family & Community Services at ASU - Tempe

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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