Human Services is about average in terms of popularity for doctor's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #140 out of the 295 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
In 2022, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Most Popular Doctor's Degree Colleges for Human Services in the Plains States Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 57 doctor's degrees in human services during the 2019-2020 academic year.
This ranking is just one of the many we have created.
First of all, if you are interested in other degree levels, you may want to take a look at one of the rankings highlighted above.
Also, if you are interested in attending school in a specific part of the country, see our rankings by location.
Plus, you can view our other rankings for human services.
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Featured Human Services Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Improve the lives of individuals, families and communities with the human service tools gained from this online bachelor's from Southern New Hampshire University.
Gain the fundamental tools required to improve the lives of children and families in crisis with this specialized online bachelor's from Southern New Hampshire University.
Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in human services needs to check out Capella University. Capella University is a very large private for-profit university located in the city of Minneapolis. Potential students might also be interested to know that the school ranks #2 in quality for doctor's degrees in human services in Minnesota.
Students who graduate with their doctorate from the human services program state that they receive average early career earnings of $64,600.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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