2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Human Services in the Plains States Region

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Human Services is the 74th most popular major in the country with 12,541 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , human services graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $32,429 and had an average of $27,166 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 1,406 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,308 and $32,620 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 94 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,238 and $112,293 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Human Services Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in human services. That schools that top this list have a program in human services in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Human Services Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Human Services Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Human Services in the Plains States Region

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

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