2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Community Services in Maryland

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Maryland” ranking.

In 2020-2021, 1,401 people earned their degree in family and community services, making the major the 377th most popular in the United States.

Across Maryland, there were 147 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 147 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,642 and $26,517 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Maryland” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in family and community services. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their family and community services program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Maryland”.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Maryland

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Maryland”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Community Services in Maryland

1

Stevenson University
Stevenson, Maryland

#20 overall quality in Maryland

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Stevenson University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Maryland list. Located in Stevenson, Maryland, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 24 degrees to qualified bachelors’s family and community services students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Family & Community Services at Stevenson

2

Mount St Mary's University
Emmitsburg, Maryland

#13 overall quality in Maryland

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, Mount St Mary’s University landed the #2 spot on the list. The Mount is located in Emmitsburg, Maryland and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 15 bachelors’s family and community services degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 5.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Family & Community Services at Mount St Mary’s University

3

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, Maryland

#2 overall quality in Maryland

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maryland - College Park. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Maryland list. UMCP is a large school located in College Park, Maryland that handed out 108 bachelors’s family and community services degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Family & Community Services at University of Maryland - College Park

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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