Human Services at Excelsior College

What traits are you looking for in a human services school? To help you decide if Excelsior College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's human services program.

Excelsior College is located in Albany, New York and has a total student population of 21,974. Of the 3,053 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Excelsior College in 2021, 13 of them were human services majors.

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.

Excelsior College Human Services Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services

Online Classes Are Available at Excelsior College

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? Excelsior College offers distance education options for human services at the following degree levels:

• Associate’s Degree
• Bachelor’s Degree

Excelsior College Human Services Rankings

The human services major at Excelsior College 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.

Human Services Student Demographics at Excelsior College

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

Excelsior College Human Services Bachelor’s Program

Of the 13 human services students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Excelsior College, about 31% were men and 69% were women. The typical human services bachelor's degree program is made up of only 13% men. So male students are more repesented at Excelsior College since its program graduates 18% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 9% 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 Excelsior College with a bachelor's in human services.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Excelsior College 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 NY, the home state for Excelsior College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Social and Human Service Assistants	37,340	$37,180
Community and Social Service Specialists	15,510	$56,110
Social and Community Service Managers	13,110	$86,700

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 Snowy Brooklyn College under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.