2022 Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Southeast region, there were 2,294 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,285 and $28,195 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 132 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in human services. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality human services programs that also have a lower cost than 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree human services students.
Top 6 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Services in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southeastern University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region list. SEU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Lakeland, Florida. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 16 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.
SEU also made our “Best Human Services Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Southeastern University are $13,515.
Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mercer University landed the #2 spot on the list. Mercer is located in Macon, Georgia and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 8 masters’s human services degrees to qualified students.
Mercer not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Human Services Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Mercer are $15,264, but some majors have different tuition rates.
Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Leo University landed the #3 spot on the list. St. Leo University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Saint Leo, Florida. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 57 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.
St. Leo University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Human Services Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at St. Leo University are $14,568, but some majors have different tuition rates.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of South Florida - Main Campus. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region. Located in Tampa, Florida, this large public school handed out 12 degrees to qualified masters’s human services students in 2019-2020.
USF Tampa did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Human Services Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at USF Tampa are $21,126, but some majors have different tuition rates.
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Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Lenoir - Rhyne University landed the #5 spot on the list. Lenoir - Rhyne University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Hickory, North Carolina. The school has a small population, and it awarded 11 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.
Lenoir - Rhyne University also took the #6 spot in our “Best Human Services Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Lenoir - Rhyne University are $11,700, but some majors have different tuition rates.
With a ranking of #6, East Tennessee State University did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region list. Johnson City, Tennessee is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s human services degrees to 13 students in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at ETSU, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Human Services Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at ETSU are $25,679, but some majors have different tuition rates.
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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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