2022 Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region

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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 the New England region, there were 1,226 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,794 and $25,899 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 66 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,606 and $42,101 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in human services. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent 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 human services program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region

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

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Services in the New England Region

#1

Post University

Waterbury, Connecticut

#1 in overall quality

$7,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$50,856 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Post University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region list. This fairly large school is located in Waterbury, Connecticut, and it awarded 32 masters’s human services degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our new england region master’s degree human services students list, Post University has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Human Services Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Post University are $7,700, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Human Services at Post University

#2

Albertus Magnus College

New Haven, Connecticut

#2 in overall quality

$21,304 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$42,235 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Albertus Magnus College landed the #2 spot on the list. Albertus Magnus is located in New Haven, Connecticut and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 23 masters’s human services degrees to qualified students.

Albertus Magnus also took the #2 spot in our “Best Human Services Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Albertus Magnus College are $21,304, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Human Services at Albertus Magnus 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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