Family & Community Services at Western Kentucky University

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

WKU is located in Bowling Green, Kentucky and has a total student population of 17,517.

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.

WKU Family & Community Services Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Family and Community Services

Online Classes Are Available at WKU

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? WKU offers distance education options for family and community services at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

WKU Family & Community Services Rankings

Family and Community Services Student Demographics at WKU

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

WKU Family & Community Services Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 20% of family and community services master's degrees went to men and 80% went to women.

In the family and community services master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 60% of degree recipients. That is 22% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

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 KY, the home state for Western Kentucky University.

Occupation	Jobs in KY	Average Salary in KY
Farm and Home Management Advisors	1,090	$49,570

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 OPMaster under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.