2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the New England Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 the New England Region” 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 the New England region, there were 39 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 33 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in family and community services. That schools that top this list have a program in family and community services in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the New England Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Family & Community Services in the New England Region

1

Merrimack College
North Andover, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Merrimack College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the New England Region list. Located in North Andover, Massachusetts, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 27 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s family and community services students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Merrimack Family & Community Services Report

2

Curry College
Milton, Massachusetts

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Curry College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Milton, Massachusetts, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 6 degrees to qualified bachelors’s family and community services students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Family & Community Services at Curry College

• Most Focused 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

• *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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