Human Services at Northern Illinois University

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

NIU is located in Dekalb, Illinois and has a total student population of 16,769. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 15 students received a bachelor's degree in human services from NIU.

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.

NIU Human Services Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services

NIU Human Services Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the human services progam at NIU 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 NIU 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	140

Earnings of NIU Human Services Graduates

The median salary of human services students who receive their bachelor's degree at NIU is $28,882. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $32,912 for all human services students.

Human Services Student Demographics at NIU

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

NIU Human Services Bachelor’s Program

Of the 15 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in human services from NIU in 2021, 20% were men and 80% were women. The typical human services bachelor's degree program is made up of only 13% men. So male students are more repesented at NIU since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 14% 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 Northern Illinois University with a bachelor's in human services.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

NIU 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 IL, the home state for Northern Illinois University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Social and Human Service Assistants	13,080	$32,910
Social and Community Service Managers	4,380	$66,150
Community and Social Service Specialists	2,990	$38,900

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 Andy McMurray under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.