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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Family and Community Services Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Family & Community Services is the 377th most popular major in the country with 1,401 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 46 family & community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great family & 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 & community services program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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 in Pennsylvania”.
We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.
Best Value Family and Community Services Schools in Pennsylvania
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Family and Community Services Schools in Pennsylvania.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Messiah University. It ranked #1 on our 2024 Best Value Family and Community Services Schools in Pennsylvania list. Located in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 34 degrees to qualified ’s family and community services students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Messiah, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Family & Community Services Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Messiah University is $26,864 for pennsylvania family and community services students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Family & Community Services at Messiah
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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
- *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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