2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Services in California

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 a Master’s in California” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Human Services is the 74th most popular major in the country with 12,645 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 California, there were 1,552 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,600 and $32,528 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 55 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,281 and $50,119 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in California” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in human services. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great human services programs and cost less that 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 California” 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 California

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

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Services in California

#2

University of San Francisco

San Francisco, California

#1 in overall quality

$26,710 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of San Francisco. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in California. Located in San Francisco, California, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 11 diplomas to qualified masters’s human services students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at USFCA, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Human Services Master’s Degree Schools in California” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at USFCA are $26,710, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full University of San Francisco Human Services Report

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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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