Human Services at Walden University

If you plan to study human services, take a look at what Walden University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Walden University is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota and approximately 49,695 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 255 students received their master's degree in human services.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Human Services section at the bottom of this page.

Walden University Human Services Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Human Services
• Doctorate Degree in Human Services

Online Classes Are Available at Walden University

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Walden University offers distance education options for human services at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

There were 60 students who received their doctoral degrees in human services, making the school the #1 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Human Services Student Demographics at Walden University

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the human services majors at Walden University.

Walden University Human Services Master’s Program

Of the 255 human services students who graduated with a master's degree in 2020-2021 from Walden University, about 9% were men and 91% were women.

In the human services master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 70% of degree recipients. That is 10% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Walden University with a master's in human services.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	148
Hispanic or Latino	21
White	50
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	30

Related Majors

• Other Public Administration
• Public Policy
• Public Administration
• Social Work

Careers That Human Services Grads May Go Into

A degree in human services can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MN, the home state for Walden University.

Occupation	Jobs in MN	Average Salary in MN
Social and Human Service Assistants	15,000	$36,160
Social and Community Service Managers	3,360	$75,280
Community and Social Service Specialists	2,690	$50,560

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online

More about our data sources and methodologies.