Best Human Services Master’s Degree Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that made our Best Human Services Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Human Services School for Your Master's Degree

The human services master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

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 master's 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 easy is it for human services to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized human services related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for human services students working on their master's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Middle Atlantic Region

Unfortunately , we did not have enough info to create a ranking of the quality schools for human services in the Middle Atlantic Region . This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that both offer human services and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

As an alternative, take a look at at some of our other Human Services rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Human Services ranking.

Best Human Services Colleges by State

Explore the best human services schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	261	1
Pennsylvania	248	44
Maryland	193	13
District of Columbia	154	3
Delaware	109	62

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Human Services Related Rankings by Major

One of 4 majors within the Public Administration & Social Service area of study, Human Services has other similar majors worth exploring.

Human Services Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Human Services	88

Majors Similar to Human Services

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Public Administration	2,775
Public Policy	929
Community Organization & Advocacy	41
Other Public Administration	34

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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.