2024 Best Human Services Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
Human Services is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #31 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 17 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Human Services Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 1,526 associate degrees in human services to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Human Services School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of human services for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of associate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their associate degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to human services students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of human services students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Student Debt - How much debt human services students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized human services related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for human services students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Human Services Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Human Services Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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