2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Human Services (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Human Services Schools for a Doctorate For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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.

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 66 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,680 and $116,043 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Human Services Schools for a Doctorate For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

More Ways to Rank Human Services Schools

The human services school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Human Services Schools for a Doctorate For Those Getting Aid”.

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Best Value Human Services Schools for a Doctorate For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for doctor’s degree human services students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Human Services (With Aid)

#1

Capella University

Minneapolis, Minnesota

#2 in overall quality

$14,767 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$71,486 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Capella University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Human Services Schools for a Doctorate For Those Getting Aid. Minneapolis, Minnesota is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out doctorate’s human services degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

Capella University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Human Services Doctor’s Degree Schools” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Capella University are $14,767, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Human Services at Capella University

#2

The University of Arizona Global Campus

San Diego, California

#3 in overall quality

$14,664 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Arizona Global Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Human Services Schools for a Doctorate For Those Getting Aid. San Diego, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out doctorate’s human services degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

UAGC also made our “Best Human Services Doctor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #3. Average graduate tuition and fees at The University of Arizona Global Campus are $14,664, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Human Services at UAGC

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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