2025 Best Human Services Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

Human Services is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #68 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Human Services Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 208 bachelor's degrees in human services during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

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 - How many other human services students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• 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 bachelor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized human services related body.

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

More Ways to Rank Human Services Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Human Services Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Human Services in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Human Services

1

Metropolitan State University of Denver
Denver, CO

36 Annual Graduates

$41,938 Median Starting Salary

Metropolitan State University of Denver is a wonderful choice for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in human services. Located in the large city of Denver, MSU Denver is a public university with a large student population.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the human services program make an average of $41,938 in the first couple years of working.

More information about a bachelor’s in human services from Metropolitan State University of Denver

2

Colorado State University - Global Campus
Aurora, CO

82 Annual Graduates

$43,336 Median Starting Salary

Colorado State University - Global Campus is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in human services. Colorado State University - Global Campus is a medium-sized public university located in the city of Aurora.

Soon after graduating, human services bachelor's recipients generally earn an average of $43,336 at the beginning of their careers.

More information about a bachelor’s in human services from Colorado State University - Global Campus

Best Human Services Colleges by State

Explore the best human services colleges for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Colorado	190	160

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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	208

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Public Administration	26
Public Policy	17
Community Organization & Advocacy	16
Other Public Administration	11

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.