2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Human Services (Income $0-$30k) in District of Columbia

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Human Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Human Services is the 74th most popular major in the country with 12,645 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, human services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $30,302 and had an average of $28,284 in loans still to pay off.

Across District of Columbia, there were 20 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $25,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,446 and $25,767 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality human services programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the human services program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Human Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Human Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Human Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Human Services (Income $0-$30k) in District of Columbia

#1

George Washington University

Washington, District of Columbia

#1 in overall quality

$17,614 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Washington University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Human Services Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $0-$30k list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 12 degrees to qualified bachelors’s human services students in 2019-2020.

GWU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Human Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” list. The yearly cost to attend GWU is $17,614 for District of Columbia Bachelor’s Degree Human Services students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%.

Full George Washington University Human Services Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Human Services (Income $0-$30k) in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Human Services (Income $0-$30k)

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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