Human Services at Southern Wesleyan University

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

SWU is located in Central, South Carolina and has a total student population of 1,345. In 2021, 22 human services majors received their bachelor's degree from SWU.

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.

SWU Human Services Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services

Online Classes Are Available at SWU

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

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

• Bachelor’s Degree

SWU Human Services Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks human services programs across the country. The following shows how SWU performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The human services major at SWU 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	22
Most Popular Online Human Services Schools	35
Most Focused Human Services Schools	53
Best Human Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	64
	94
Best Human Services Schools	97
Most Popular Human Services Schools	146
	147

Earnings of SWU Human Services Graduates

The median salary of human services students who receive their bachelor's degree at SWU is $27,018. 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 SWU

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

SWU Human Services Bachelor’s Program

Of the 22 human services students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from SWU, about 9% were men and 91% were women.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	11
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

SWU 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 SC, the home state for Southern Wesleyan University.

Occupation	Jobs in SC	Average Salary in SC
Social and Human Service Assistants	6,170	$31,660
Social and Community Service Managers	930	$68,610

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 Robert Thall under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.