2025 Best Human Services Associate Degree Schools in Massachusetts

If you pursue a associate degree in human services, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #31 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Human Services Associate Degree Schools in Massachusetts ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 136 associate degrees in human services to qualified students.

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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. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

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 consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their associate degree from the school. After all, your associate 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 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 complete 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 Massachusetts ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Human Services in Massachusetts

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in human services.

Top Massachusetts Schools for an Associate in Human Services

1

Quinsigamond Community College
Worcester, MA

30 Annual Graduates

$36,101 Median Starting Salary

Quinsigamond Community College is one of the best schools in the United States for getting an associate degree in human services. Quinsigamond Community College is a moderately-sized public college located in the medium-sized city of Worcester.

Those human services students who get their associate degree from Quinsigamond Community College make $6,866 more than the average human services grad.

More information about a associate in human services from Quinsigamond Community College

2

Holyoke Community College
Holyoke, MA

17 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in an associate degree in human services needs to look into Holyoke Community College. Holyoke Community College is a small public college located in the rural area of Holyoke.More information about a associate in human services from Holyoke Community College

3

Mount Wachusett Community College
Gardner, MA

17 Annual Graduates

$22,370 Median Starting Salary

Mount Wachusett Community College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting an associate degree in human services. MWCC is a small public college located in the medium-sized suburb of Gardner.

After graduation, human services associate recipients generally earn an average of $22,370 in the first five years of their career.

More information about a associate in human services from Mount Wachusett Community College

Best Human Services Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Human Services Schools in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Connecticut	101	80
New Hampshire	80	14
Maine	69	85
Vermont	58	25

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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	136

Majors Similar to Human Services

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Community Organization & Advocacy	10
Other Public Administration	2

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.