2023 Best Family & Community Services Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region
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Ranked Colleges
39
Degrees Awarded
$42,600
Avg Cost*
With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Family and Community Services” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 1,401 people earned their degree in family and community services, making the major the 377th most popular in the United States.
Across the New England region, there were 39 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent family and community services programs, but they also offer a lot of support to 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Family and Community Services” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Family and Community Services
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region vets studying family and community services.
Top 1 Best Family & Community Services Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Merrimack College. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Family and Community Services. Merrimack is a medium-sized school located in North Andover, Massachusetts that handed out 27 ’s family and community services degrees in 2020-2021.
Merrimack did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] on our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” list.According to our most recent data, Merrimack College supports 5,418 students, and 72 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 39 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $15,794. To help with additional expenses, 11 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Merrimack College offers 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%.
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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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