2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southwest 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southwest Region” ranking.

Family & Community Services is the 377th most popular major in the country with 1,401 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 74 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 22 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in family and community services. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in family and community services.

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

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

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

1

Lubbock Christian University
Lubbock, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lubbock Christian University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southwest Region list. Lubbock, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s family and community services degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Family & Community Services at Lubbock Christian University

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Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#14 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Tempe. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the Southwest Region list. ASU - Tempe is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 16 masters’s family and community services degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Full ASU - Tempe Family & Community Services Report

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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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