Human Services at Fitchburg State University

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

Fitchburg State is located in Fitchburg, Massachusetts and has a total student population of 6,728. Of the 892 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Fitchburg State University in 2021, 26 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.

Fitchburg State Human Services Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services

Fitchburg State Human Services Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the human services progam at Fitchburg State 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 Fitchburg State 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	90

Earnings of Fitchburg State Human Services Graduates

The median salary of human services students who receive their bachelor's degree at Fitchburg State is $33,593. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 2% higher than the national average of $32,912 for all human services bachelor's degree recipients.

Human Services Student Demographics at Fitchburg State

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

Fitchburg State Human Services Bachelor’s Program

Of the 26 human services students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Fitchburg State, about 27% were men and 73% were women. The typical human services bachelor's degree program is made up of only 13% men. So male students are more repesented at Fitchburg State since its program graduates 14% more men than average.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	11
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Fitchburg State 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 MA, the home state for Fitchburg State University.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Social and Human Service Assistants	15,230	$35,390
Social and Community Service Managers	7,420	$70,500
Community and Social Service Specialists	910	$44,880

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 Found5dollar under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.