2023 Most Well Attended Family and Community Services Major in the New England Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Family and Community Services Major in the New England Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 “Most Well Attended 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. To top this list, a school must have a successful family and community services program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Family and Community Services Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Family and Community Services Major in the New England Region”.

Top 2 Most Popular 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

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Merrimack College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Family and Community Services Major in the New England Region list. Merrimack College is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in North Andover, Massachusetts. It awarded 27 ’s family and community services degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Family & Community Services at Merrimack

2

Curry College
Milton, Massachusetts

$58,713 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,523 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Curry College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Family and Community Services Major in the New England Region. This small school is located in Milton, Massachusetts, and it awarded 6 ’s family and community services degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Curry College 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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