by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 13,238 people earned their degree in human services, making the major the 74th most popular in the United States. 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 the Middle Atlantic region, there were 2,686 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,282 and $25,386 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 123 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 7 colleges that offer a degree in human services. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in human services.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
The human services school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree human services students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lincoln University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This small school is located in Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 32 masters’s human services degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Chestnut Hill College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Chestnut Hill College is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 12 masters’s human services degrees to qualified students.
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Wilmington University landed the #3 spot on the list. New Castle, Delaware is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s human services degrees to 62 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Baltimore. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This small school is located in Baltimore, Maryland, and it awarded 13 masters’s human services degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boricua College. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This small school is located in New York, New York, and it awarded 1 masters’s human services degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Catholic University of America landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Catholic University of America is a private not-for-profit institution located in Washington, District of Columbia. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 3 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Human Services at Catholic University of America
McDaniel College ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. McDaniel College is a small school located in Westminster, Maryland that handed out 0 masters’s human services degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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