Human Services at Chestnut Hill College

If you plan to study human services, take a look at what Chestnut Hill College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

CHC is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and approximately 1,528 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 53 human services majors received their bachelor's degree from CHC.

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.

CHC Human Services Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services
• Master’s Degree in Human Services

CHC Human Services Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The human services major at CHC 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
Most Focused Human Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	7
	10
Best Value Human Services Master’s Degree Schools	16
	39
Best Human Services Schools	44
Most Popular Human Services Schools	45
Best Value Human Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	72

In 2021, 12 students received their master’s degree in human services from CHC. This makes it the #22 most popular school for human services master’s degree candidates in the country.

How Much Do Human Services Graduates from CHC Make?

The median salary of human services students who receive their bachelor's degree at CHC is $38,478. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 17% higher than the national average of $32,912 for all human services bachelor's degree recipients.

Human Services Student Demographics at CHC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the human services majors at Chestnut Hill College.

CHC Human Services Bachelor’s Program

The human services program at CHC awarded 53 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 15% of these degrees went to men with the other 85% going to women. The typical human services bachelor's degree program is made up of only 13% men. So male students are more repesented at CHC since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 11% more racial-ethnic minorities in its human services bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	30
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	8
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	10

CHC Human Services Master’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 12 students earned a master's degree in human services from CHC. About 100% of these graduates were women and the other 0% were men.

In the human services master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 67% of degree recipients. That is 14% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Chestnut Hill College with a master's in human services.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	1
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

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 PA, the home state for Chestnut Hill College.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Social and Human Service Assistants	18,480	$34,320
Social and Community Service Managers	8,300	$65,620
Community and Social Service Specialists	1,230	$50,810

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 Kiran under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.