2023 Best Value Human Services Schools in the Southwest Region
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Human Services School for You
Human Services is the #124 most popular major in the country with 1,277 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 can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
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 the Southwest Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the Southwest Region 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.
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2023 Best Value Human Services Schools in the Southwest Region
Check out the human services programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.
Best Southwest Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Human Services
Our 2023 rankings named East Central University the best value school in the Southwest Region for human services students. ECU is a small public school located in the remote town of Ada.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at ECU are $16,555 per year.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Wayland Baptist University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Human Services Schools in the Southwest Region list. Wayland Baptist University is a small private not-for-profit school located in the town of Plainview.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Wayland Baptist University are $22,004 a year.
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The excellent programs at Northern Arizona University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best human services schools in the Southwest Region . Located in the small city of Flagstaff, NAU is a public school with a fairly large student population.
NAU undergraduate students pay an average of $17,761 in tuition and fees each year.
Best Human Services Colleges by State
Explore the best human services colleges for a specific state in the Southwest region.
State | Degrees Awarded |
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Texas | 5 |
Arizona | 9 |
Oklahoma | 19 |
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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
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Social Work | 33,631 |
Public Administration | 13,571 |
Public Policy | 3,737 |
Community Organization & Advocacy | 741 |
Other Public Administration | 295 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 3 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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