2023 Best Value Human Services Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Human Services School for You

Human Services is the #115 most popular major in California with 142 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Human Services Schools in California ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in California to see which programs offered the best value experiences for human services students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Human Services Schools in California

Check out the human services programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best California Schools for Affordable Quality in Human Services

#2

University of San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

13 Degrees

#13 in Quality in California

$53,472 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in California that were part of this year’s ranking, University of San Francisco landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the city of San Francisco, USFCA is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at USFCA are $53,472 per year.

In addition to its great value ranking, USFCA is in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Human Services Schools in California list.

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Best Value Human Services Colleges in the Far Western US Region

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Majors Related to Human Services

Human Services is one of 5 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Human Services

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to University of the Fraser Valley.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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