2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Services in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 12,645 people earned their degree in human services, making the major the 74th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, human services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $30,302 and had an average of $28,284 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,585 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,933 and $34,648 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 38 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 human services programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the human services program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

More Ways to Rank Human Services Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree human services students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Services in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

East Central University

Ada, Oklahoma

#1 in overall quality

$11,568 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$43,426 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Central University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. ECU is a public institution located in Ada, Oklahoma. The school has a small population, and it awarded 38 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

ECU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Human Services Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at ECU are $11,568, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full ECU Human Services Report

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Services (With Aid)

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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