2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Human Services in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value General Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 12,645 people earned their degree in general human services, making the major the 62nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,585 general human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 38 general human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general human services programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general human services program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

More Ways to Rank General Human Services Schools

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 Value General Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.

One of our other unique offerings is College Combat. This tool lets you build your own customized comparisons utilizing the factors that are most important to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value General Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value General Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Human Services in the Southwest Region

#1

East Central University

Ada, Oklahoma

#1 in overall quality

$11,568 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Central University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value General Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region list. East Central University is a small public school situated in Ada, Oklahoma. It awarded 38 masters’s general human services degrees in 2019-2020.

ECU also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Human Services Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at ECU are $11,568, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on General Human Services at East Central University

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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