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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Community Services (Income $48-$75k) in the Great Lakes Region

4 Ranked Colleges
232 Degrees Awarded
Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor's in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 299 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 232 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k”.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree family and community services students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Community Services (Income $48-$75k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Madison landed the #1 spot on the list. Madison, Wisconsin is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s family and community services degrees to 57 students in 2019-2020.

UW - Madison not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Family & Community Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Wisconsin - Madison is $13,227 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree family and community services students whose families make $48-$75k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, 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 95%.

Read more about Family & Community Services at University of Wisconsin - Madison

#2

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Michigan State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in East Lansing, Michigan, this large public school handed out 92 degrees to qualified bachelors’s family and community services students in 2019-2020.

Michigan State also took the #2 spot in our “Best Family & Community Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Michigan State University is $20,696 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree family and community services students whose families make $48-$75k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Family & Community Services at Michigan State

#3

Baker College

Owosso, Michigan
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Baker College. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Owosso, Michigan 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 74 students in 2019-2020.

Baker College also made our “Best Family & Community Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #4. It costs about $15,933 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Family and Community Services students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Baker College.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Family & Community Services at Baker College

#4

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, Michigan
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Michigan University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k. WMU is a fairly large school located in Kalamazoo, Michigan that handed out 1 bachelors’s family and community services degrees in 2019-2020.

WMU also made our “Best Family & Community Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #3. The yearly cost to attend Western Michigan University is $19,841 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree family and community services students whose families make $48-$75k.

Full WMU 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

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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