2023 Schools Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Pennsylvania
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Ranked Colleges
46
Degrees Awarded
$31,100
Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Pennsylvania” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Family & Community Services is the 377th most popular major in the country with 1,401 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 46 family and community services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Pennsylvania” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Pennsylvania
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Pennsylvania”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Messiah University landed the #1 spot on the list. Messiah is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. It awarded 34 ’s family and community services degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Family & Community Services at Messiah University
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, La Roche University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 5 diplomas to qualified ’s family and community services students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.2% 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 more about Family & Community Services at La Roche University
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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
- *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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