If you plan on majoring in human services, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #74 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Maryland to determine which ones were the best for human services students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 167 degrees in human services during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Human Services Schools in Maryland ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of human services degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Towson University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in human services. Located in the city of Towson, Towson is a public university with a large student population.
Students who graduate with their degree from the human services program state that they receive average early career earnings of $30,574.
Every student pursuing a degree in human services has to look into University of Baltimore. UB is a small public university located in the large city of Baltimore.
Those human services students who get their degree from University of Baltimore earn $11,121 more than the typical human services student.
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).