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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. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 family & community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree family and community services students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kansas State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Plains States Region list. Kansas State University is a public institution located in Manhattan, Kansas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.
Full K -State Family & Community Services Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota State University landed the #3 spot on the list. South Dakota State is a public institution located in Brookings, South Dakota. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1 masters’s 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%.
Full South Dakota State Family & Community Services Report
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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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