2022 Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

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 for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” 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 the Southwest region, there were 72 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 29 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in family and community services. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great family and community services programs and 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree family and community services students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Community Services in the Southwest Region

#1

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$17,571 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Tech University landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas Tech is a large public school situated in Lubbock, Texas. It awarded 11 bachelors’s family and community services degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree family and community services students list, Texas Tech has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Family & Community Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Texas Tech University is $17,571 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Family and Community Services students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Family & Community Services at Texas Tech University

#2

Oklahoma Baptist University

Shawnee, Oklahoma

#2 in overall quality

$21,446 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma Baptist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Shawnee, Oklahoma is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s family and community services degrees to 18 students in 2019-2020.

OBU also made our “Best Family & Community Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for Oklahoma Baptist University is $21,446 for southwest region bachelor’s degree family and community services students.

Full OBU Family & Community Services Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Community Services

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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