2024 Best Family & Community Services Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
3Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
210Family and Community Services Degrees Awarded
A degree in family & community services is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #377 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for family & community services students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 210 degrees in family & community services during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Family & Community Services School
The family and community services program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Family & Community Services rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for family & community services schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Pick Your Family & Community Services Degree Level
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Family & Community Services Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Family & Community Services in the Middle Atlantic Region
The schools below may not offer all types of family and community services degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools in Family and Community Services
University of Maryland - College Park is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in family & community services. Located in the large suburb of College Park, UMCP is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #42 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UMCP is a great university overall.
There were roughly 108 family & community services students who graduated with this degree at UMCP in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in family & community services needs to take a look at Messiah University. Located in the suburb of Mechanicsburg, Messiah is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 31st out of 109 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were about 34 family & community services students who graduated with this degree at Messiah in the most recent year we have data available.
Stevenson University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in family & community services. Located in the suburb of Owings Mills, Stevenson is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 23rd out of 36 colleges for overall quality in the state of Maryland.
There were roughly 24 family & community services students who graduated with this degree at Stevenson in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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The family and community services program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Family & Community Services rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for family & community services schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
