by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Human Services Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 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 “Most Well Attended Human Services Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 7 colleges that offer a degree in human services. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular human services programs in the United States.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Human Services Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wilmington University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Human Services Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s. Wilmington University is a private not-for-profit institution located in New Castle, Delaware. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 62 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 7 schools in the Most Well Attended Human Services Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Lincoln University landed the #2 spot on the list. Lincoln University, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s human services degrees to 32 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Baltimore. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Human Services Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s. UB is a small public school situated in Baltimore, Maryland. It awarded 13 masters’s human services degrees in 2020-2021.
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Out of the 7 schools in the Most Well Attended Human Services Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Chestnut Hill College landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 12 diplomas to qualified masters’s human services students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 7 schools in the Most Well Attended Human Services Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Catholic University of America landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s human services students 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%.
Boricua College landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Most Well Attended Human Services Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s ranking. Boricua College is a small school located in New York, New York that handed out 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.
McDaniel College came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Most Well Attended Human Services Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s ranking. McDaniel is a small school located in Westminster, Maryland that handed out 0 masters’s human services degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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