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2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Human Services in Texas (With Aid)

2 Ranked Colleges
19 Degrees Awarded
$25,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Human Services Schools for an Associate in Texas For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 an Associate in Texas For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 12,645 people earned their degree in human services, making the major the 74th most popular in the United States. 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 Texas, there were 143 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,300 and $30,951 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 19 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Human Services Schools for an Associate in Texas For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in human services. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality human services programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the human services program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 an Associate in Texas For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Human Services Schools for an Associate in Texas For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Human Services Schools for an Associate in Texas For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Human Services in Texas (With Aid)

#1

Wayland Baptist University

Plainview, Texas
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wayland Baptist University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Human Services Schools for an Associate in Texas For Those Getting Aid. Wayland Baptist University is a small school located in Plainview, Texas that handed out 11 associates’s human services degrees in 2019-2020.

Wayland Baptist University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Human Services Associate Degree Schools in Texas” list. The yearly cost to attend Wayland Baptist University is $25,152 for texas associate degree human services students with aid.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full Wayland Baptist University Human Services Report

#2 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Human Services Schools for an Associate in Texas For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Southwestern Assemblies of God University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Waxahachie, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified associates’s human services students in 2019-2020.

Southwestern Assemblies of God University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Human Services Associate Degree Schools in Texas” list. The yearly cost to attend Southwestern Assemblies of God University is $24,982 for Texas Associate Degree Human Services students with aid.

Full Southwestern Assemblies of God University Human Services Report

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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