Human Services is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #104 most popular master's degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Human Services Master's Degree Schools in California ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 153 master's degrees in human services to qualified students.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on human services students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other human services students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt human services students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized human services related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for human services students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Human Services Master's Degree Schools in California ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Human Services in California
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in human services.
Top California Schools for a Master's in Human Services
It's difficult to beat The University of Arizona Global Campus if you wish to pursue a master's degree in human services. UAGC is a very large private for-profit university located in the city of San Diego.
Students who graduate with their master's from the human services program state that they receive average early career income of $48,476.
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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