2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Plains States 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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Plains States region, there were 168 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 138 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in family and community services. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in family and community services.

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 Plains States Region

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

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

1

University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa

#25 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Northern Iowa. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Plains States Region. This medium-sized school is located in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and it awarded 57 bachelors’s family and community services degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Family & Community Services at University of Northern Iowa

2

Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa

#6 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Iowa State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Plains States Region list. Ames, Iowa is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s family and community services degrees to 81 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Iowa State Family & Community Services Report

• 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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