2022 Best Value Family and Community Services Schools in Massachusetts For Those Making $30-$48k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students 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 “Best Value Family and Community Services Schools in Massachusetts For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Family & Community Services is the 358th most popular major in the country with 1,385 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Massachusetts, there were 48 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 cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the family and community services program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Family and Community Services Schools in Massachusetts For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Family and Community Services Schools in Massachusetts For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Family and Community Services Schools in Massachusetts For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Family & Community Services (Income $30-$48k) in Massachusetts

#1

Merrimack College

North Andover, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$29,056 Average Net Price

$38,633 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Merrimack College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Family and Community Services Schools in Massachusetts For Those Making $30-$48k list. Merrimack is a medium-sized school located in North Andover, Massachusetts that handed out 35 ’s family and community services degrees in 2019-2020.

Merrimack did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Family & Community Services Schools in Massachusetts” list. It costs about $29,056 for Massachusetts Family and Community Services students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Merrimack College.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Family & Community Services at Merrimack College

• Best Value Colleges for Family & Community Services (Income $30-$48k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Colleges for Family & Community Services (Income $30-$48k)

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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