2022 Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the Southeast region, there were 352 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 42 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the family and community services program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region.

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

#1

University of Florida

Gainesville, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$30,130 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Florida. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region list. UF is a large school located in Gainesville, Florida that handed out 14 masters’s family and community services degrees in 2019-2020.

UF not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Family & Community Services Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UF are $30,130.

Full UF Family & Community Services Report

#2

Western Kentucky University

Bowling Green, Kentucky

#2 in overall quality

$18,340 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Kentucky University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Family and Community Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region. This fairly large school is located in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and it awarded 7 masters’s family and community services degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region master’s degree family and community services students list, WKU has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Family & Community Services Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at WKU are $18,340, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Family & Community Services at Western Kentucky 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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