Human Services at Central Washington University

If you are interested in studying human services, you may want to check out the program at Central Washington University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

CWU is located in Ellensburg, Washington and approximately 11,174 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 57 human services majors received their bachelor's degree from CWU.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Human Services section at the bottom of this page.

CWU Human Services Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services

Online Classes Are Available at CWU

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

For those who are interested in distance learning, CWU does offer online courses in human services for the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

CWU Human Services Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the human services progam at CWU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The human services major at CWU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Human Services. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Human Services Schools	11
Most Popular Online Human Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	14
Most Popular Online Human Services Schools	17
Best Value Human Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	32

How Much Do Human Services Graduates from CWU Make?

The median salary of human services students who receive their bachelor's degree at CWU is $35,873. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 9% higher than the national average of $32,912 for all human services bachelor's degree recipients.

Human Services Student Demographics at CWU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the human services majors at Central Washington University.

CWU Human Services Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 11% of human services bachelor's degrees went to men and 89% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Central Washington University with a bachelor's in human services.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	18
White	23
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	13

CWU also has a doctoral program available in human services. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Public Policy

Careers That Human Services Grads May Go Into

A degree in human services can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for WA, the home state for Central Washington University.

Occupation	Jobs in WA	Average Salary in WA
Social and Human Service Assistants	8,090	$40,200
Community and Social Service Specialists	1,870	$43,420

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Bobak Ha’Eri under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.