2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Services in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 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.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great human services programs and 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.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

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

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

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

#1

East Central University

Ada, Oklahoma

#1 in overall quality

$11,568 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$43,426 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend East Central University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region. ECU is located in Ada, Oklahoma and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 38 masters’s human services degrees to qualified students.

ECU also made our “Best Human Services Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest 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 ECU are $11,568.

Read full report on Human Services at ECU

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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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