Human Services at Upper Iowa University

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

UIU is located in Fayette, Iowa and has a total student population of 3,610. Of the 1,084 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Upper Iowa University in 2021, 86 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.

UIU Human Services Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services

Online Classes Are Available at UIU

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

• Bachelor’s Degree

UIU Human Services Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the human services progam at UIU 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 UIU 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 Popular Human Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	19

How Much Do Human Services Graduates from UIU Make?

The median salary of human services students who receive their bachelor's degree at UIU is $32,737. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $32,912 for all human services students.

Human Services Student Demographics at UIU

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

UIU Human Services Bachelor’s Program

Of the 86 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in human services from UIU in 2021, 15% were men and 85% were women. The typical human services bachelor's degree program is made up of only 13% men. So male students are more repesented at UIU since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

About 55% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in human services at UIU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	26
Hispanic or Latino	9
White	47
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

UIU 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 IA, the home state for Upper Iowa University.

Occupation	Jobs in IA	Average Salary in IA
Social and Human Service Assistants	4,660	$35,030
Social and Community Service Managers	2,310	$58,410
Community and Social Service Specialists	1,020	$37,160

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 SheilaJMiller under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.