Family & Community Services at Western Michigan University

What traits are you looking for in a family and community services school? To help you decide if Western Michigan University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's family and community services program.

WMU is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan and has a total student population of 19,887.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Family & Community Services section at the bottom of this page.

WMU Family & Community Services Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Family and Community Services
• Master’s Degree in Family and Community Services

WMU Family & Community Services Rankings

The family and community services major at WMU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Family & Community Services. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Family and Community Services Student Demographics at WMU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the family and community services majors at Western Michigan University.

WMU Family & Community Services Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 67% of family and community services bachelor's degrees went to men and 33% went to women. The typical family and community services bachelor's degree program is made up of only 12% men. So male students are more repesented at WMU since its program graduates 55% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 29% more racial-ethnic minorities in its family and community services bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Western Michigan University with a bachelor's in family and community services.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

WMU Family & Community Services Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 0% of family and community services master's degrees went to men and 100% went to women.

In the family and community services master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 100% of degree recipients. That is 62% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Western Michigan University with a master's in family and community services.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	0
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Family Systems
• Child Development

Careers That Family and Community Services Grads May Go Into

A degree in family and community services can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MI, the home state for Western Michigan University.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
Farm and Home Management Advisors	520	$49,840

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By TheKuLeR under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.