2023 Most Focused Colleges for Family & Community Services in Maryland

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Maryland” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Maryland” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree 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.

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Schools Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Maryland

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

Top 3 Most Focused Colleges for Family & Community Services in Maryland

1

Stevenson University
Stevenson, Maryland

#20 overall quality in Maryland

$46,605 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,930 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Stevenson University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Maryland. This small school is located in Stevenson, Maryland, and it awarded 24 ’s family and community services degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.4% 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%.

Read full report on Family & Community Services at Stevenson

2

Mount St Mary's University
Emmitsburg, Maryland

#13 overall quality in Maryland

$41,078 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,743 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mount St Mary’s University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Maryland. Located in Emmitsburg, Maryland, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 15 degrees to qualified ’s family and community services students in 2020-2021.

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%.

Full The Mount Family & Community Services Report

3

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, Maryland

#2 overall quality in Maryland

$52,217 Average Early-Career Earnings

$20,640 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maryland - College Park. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Maryland list. UMCP is located in College Park, Maryland and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 108 ’s family and community services degrees to qualified students.

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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.

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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