2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Human Services in Oregon

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Human Services Schools for an Associate in Oregon” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Oregon, there were 140 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,300 and $38,466 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 8 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality human services programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the human services program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Human Services Schools for an Associate in Oregon” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Human Services Schools for an Associate in Oregon

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Human Services Schools for an Associate in Oregon.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Human Services in Oregon

#1

Umpqua Community College

Roseburg, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$9,502 Average Net Price

$26,353 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Human Services Schools for an Associate in Oregon that were part of this year’s ranking, Umpqua Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Umpqua Community College is a small school located in Roseburg, Oregon that handed out 5 associates’s human services degrees in 2019-2020.

Umpqua Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Human Services Associate Degree Schools in Oregon” list. The estimated yearly cost for Umpqua Community College is $9,502 for Oregon Associate Degree Human Services students.

Read full report on Human Services at Umpqua Community College

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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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