2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 148 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region master’s degree family and community services students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Family & Community Services in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

#9 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Utah. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. This large school is located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and it awarded 2 masters’s family and community services degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Family & Community Services at University of Utah

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The University of Montana
Missoula, Montana

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Montana landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Missoula, Montana, this fairly large public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified masters’s family and community services students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Family & Community Services at The University of Montana

• Most Focused Master’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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