Human Services at Columbia College

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

Columbia College Missouri is located in Columbia, Missouri and has a total student population of 8,347. In 2021, 129 human services majors received their bachelor's degree from Columbia College Missouri.

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.

Columbia College Missouri Human Services Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at Columbia College Missouri

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Columbia College Missouri offers distance education options for human services at the following degree levels:

• Associate’s Degree
• Bachelor’s Degree

Columbia College Missouri Human Services Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the human services progam at Columbia College Missouri 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 Columbia College Missouri 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 Popular Online Human Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	5
Most Popular Human Services Schools	9
Best Human Services Associate Degree Schools	13
Most Popular Human Services Associate Degree Schools	13
Most Focused Human Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	30
Best Human Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	31

How Much Do Human Services Graduates from Columbia College Missouri Make?

The median salary of human services students who receive their bachelor's degree at Columbia College Missouri is $30,656. This is less than $32,912, which is the national average of all human services majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Human Services Student Demographics at Columbia College Missouri

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

Columbia College Missouri Human Services Associate’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 9% of human services associate's degrees went to men and 91% went to women.

Columbia College Missouri does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in human services graduates 4% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	26
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	24
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Columbia College Missouri Human Services Bachelor’s Program

Of the 129 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in human services from Columbia College Missouri in 2021, 12% were men and 88% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 6% 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 Columbia College with a bachelor's in human services.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	52
Hispanic or Latino	13
White	51
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	12

Columbia College Missouri 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 Administration

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 MO, the home state for Columbia College.

Occupation	Jobs in MO	Average Salary in MO
Social and Human Service Assistants	3,650	$29,960
Social and Community Service Managers	2,290	$60,450
Community and Social Service Specialists	1,060	$38,740

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 {} under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.