2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Family and Community Services for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
33
Degrees Awarded
$42,600
Avg Cost*
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Family and Community Services for a Bachelor’s” 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 1,401 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the New England region, there were 39 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 33 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great family and community services programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the family and community services program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Family and Community Services for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree vets studying family and community services.
Top 1 Best Family & Community Services Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Family and Community Services for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Merrimack College landed the #1 spot on the list. North Andover, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s family and community services degrees to 27 students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Merrimack, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Family & Community Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking.Of the 5,418 students enrolled at Merrimack College, 72 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 39 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $15,794. During this same period, 11 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Merrimack College does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Merrimack]](/colleges/merrimack-college/student-life/veterans/)
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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