2023 Most Focused Colleges for Family & Community Services in the New England Region

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

Across the New England region, there were 39 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 the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in family and community services. That schools that top this list have a program in family and community services in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the New England Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Family & Community Services in the New England Region

1

Merrimack College
North Andover, Massachusetts

$45,897 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,834 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Merrimack College landed the #1 spot on the list. North Andover, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s family and community services degrees to 27 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.3% 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 Merrimack

2

Curry College
Milton, Massachusetts

$58,713 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,523 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Family and Community Services Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Curry College landed the #2 spot on the list. Milton, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s family and community services degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Family & Community Services at Curry College

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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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