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2022 Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k

4 Ranked Colleges
271 Degrees Awarded
$12,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 1,385 people earned their degree in family and community services, making the major the 358th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 352 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 271 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in family and community services. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent family and community services programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the family and community services program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The family and community services school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k”.

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Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Community Services (Income $30-$48k) in the Southeast Region

#1

University of Florida

Gainesville, Florida
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Florida. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k. University of Florida is located in Gainesville, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 122 bachelors’s family and community services degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree family and community services students whose families make $30-$48k list, UF has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Family & Community Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UF is $4,069 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Family and Community Services students whose families make $30-$48k.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Florida Family & Community Services Report

#2

East Carolina University

Greenville, North Carolina
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Carolina University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. Greenville, North Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s family and community services degrees to 87 students in 2019-2020.

ECU also made our “Best Family & Community Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #4. The estimated yearly cost for East Carolina University is $12,195 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Family and Community Services students whose families make $30-$48k.

Read full report on Family & Community Services at ECU

#3

Harding University

Searcy, Arkansas
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harding University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. This small school is located in Searcy, Arkansas, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s family and community services degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Harding, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Family & Community Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Harding University is $15,735 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Family and Community Services students whose families make $30-$48k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Family & Community Services at Harding University

#4

John Brown University

Siloam Springs, Arkansas
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend John Brown University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. JBU is located in Siloam Springs, Arkansas and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 17 bachelors’s family and community services degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree family and community services students whose families make $30-$48k list, JBU has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Family & Community Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for John Brown University is $16,791 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Family and Community Services students whose families make $30-$48k.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 3.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Family & Community Services at John Brown University

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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

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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