Human Services at Gordon State College

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

Gordon is located in Barnesville, Georgia and approximately 3,231 students attend the school each year. Of the 255 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Gordon State College in 2021, 56 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.

Gordon Human Services Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services

Gordon Human Services Rankings

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

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The human services major at Gordon 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	14
Best Value Human Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	27
Most Popular Human Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	32
Most Popular Human Services Schools	53
Best Value Human Services Schools	63
Best Human Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	89
	89
Best Human Services Schools	141

Earnings of Gordon Human Services Graduates

The median salary of human services students who receive their bachelor's degree at Gordon is $27,845. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $32,912 for all human services students.

Human Services Student Demographics at Gordon

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

Gordon Human Services Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 56 students earned a bachelor's degree in human services from Gordon. About 95% of these graduates were women and the other 5% were men.

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 Gordon State College with a bachelor's in human services.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	29
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	20
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Gordon 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 GA, the home state for Gordon State College.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Social and Human Service Assistants	8,070	$29,360
Social and Community Service Managers	3,720	$66,000
Community and Social Service Specialists	2,020	$42,640

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.