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 New England 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 New England region, there were 1,361 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,236 and $27,488 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 69 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 5 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.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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 New England Region”.
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. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree human services students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Albertus Magnus College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in the New England Region. Albertus Magnus is located in New Haven, Connecticut and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 16 masters’s human services degrees to qualified students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Post University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in the New England Region list. Located in Waterbury, Connecticut, this fairly large private for-profit school handed out 45 diplomas to qualified masters’s human services students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New England College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in the New England Region. NEC is located in Henniker, New Hampshire and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 8 masters’s human services degrees to qualified students.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts - Boston landed the #4 spot on the list. University of Massachusetts - Boston is a fairly large school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 0 masters’s human services degrees in 2020-2021.
Full University of Massachusetts - Boston Human Services Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northeastern University Professional Advancement Network. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Human Services Major in the New England Region list. Northeastern University Professional Advancement Network is a fairly large school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 1 masters’s human services degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Human Services at Northeastern University Professional Advancement Network
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