by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in North Carolina” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Human Services is the 74th most popular major in the country with 13,238 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, human services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,839 and had an average of $30,553 in loans still to pay off.
Across North Carolina, there were 129 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,730 and $22,700 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 117 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,368 and $25,940 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in North Carolina” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in human services. That schools that top this list have a program in human services in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in North Carolina” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in North Carolina”.
Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Lees - McRae College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Banner Elk, North Carolina, and it awarded 25 bachelors’s human services degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wingate University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in North Carolina list. Wingate University is located in Wingate, North Carolina and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 39 bachelors’s human services degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Elon University landed the #3 spot on the list. Elon University is a medium-sized school located in Elon, North Carolina that handed out 34 bachelors’s human services degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Queens University of Charlotte landed the #4 spot on the list. Queens University of Charlotte is a private not-for-profit institution located in Charlotte, North Carolina. The school has a small population, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lenoir - Rhyne University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in North Carolina list. Lenoir - Rhyne University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Hickory, North Carolina. It awarded 6 bachelors’s human services degrees in 2020-2021.
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University of Mount Olive came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in North Carolina ranking. Mount Olive, North Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s human services degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.
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