2022 Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region 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 the Middle Atlantic region, there were 2,685 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,555 and $22,040 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 167 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,887 and $46,998 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in human services. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent human services programs, but they also cost less that 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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Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 4 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Services in the Middle Atlantic Region (With Aid)

#1

Wilmington University

New Castle, Delaware

#4 in overall quality

$8,834 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$41,789 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wilmington University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid. This fairly large school is located in New Castle, Delaware, and it awarded 68 masters’s human services degrees in 2019-2020.

Wilmington University also took the #4 spot in our “Best Human Services Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Wilmington University are $8,834, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Human Services at Wilmington University

#2

University of Baltimore

Baltimore, Maryland

#3 in overall quality

$21,614 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$43,314 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Baltimore. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Baltimore, Maryland, this small public school handed out 20 diplomas to qualified masters’s human services students in 2019-2020.

UB also took the #3 spot in our “Best Human Services Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UB are $21,614, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Human Services at University of Baltimore

#3

Lincoln University

Lincoln University, Pennsylvania

#2 in overall quality

$18,942 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$44,468 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lincoln University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid. Lincoln is a small school located in Lincoln University, Pennsylvania that handed out 41 masters’s human services degrees in 2019-2020.

Lincoln also took the #2 spot in our “Best Human Services Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Lincoln University are $18,942.

Read full report on Human Services at Lincoln University

#4

Chestnut Hill College

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$17,625 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$41,342 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Chestnut Hill College. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Human Services Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Getting Aid list. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s human services degrees to 20 students in 2019-2020.

CHC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Human Services Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at CHC are $17,625, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Human Services at CHC

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Services (With Aid)

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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