2023 Best Value Human Services Graduate Certificate Schools
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Human Services Graduate Certificate School for You
Human Services is the #75 most popular major in the country with 13,238 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.
It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Human Services Graduate Certificate Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in the United States to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for human services students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.
In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
Best Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Human Services
Our analysis found American Public University System to be the best value school for human services students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the United States. Located in the town of Charles Town, American Military University is a private for-profit college with a very large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at American Military University are $7,050 per year.
In addition to its great value ranking, American Military University is in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Human Services Graduate Certificate Schools list.
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The excellent graduate certificate programs at East Central University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value human services schools in the United States. ECU is a small public school located in the remote town of Ada.
ECU graduate students pay an average of $11,634 in tuition and fees each year.
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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Northern Arizona University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value human services schools in the United States. Located in the city of Flagstaff, NAU is a public school with a fairly large student population.
NAU graduate students pay an average of $20,125 in tuition and fees each year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Human Services Graduate Certificate Schools list. Located in the large city of Minneapolis, UMN Twin Cities is a public college with a fairly large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UMN Twin Cities are $29,262 a year.
On top of its placing in our value ranking, UMN Twin Cities also did well on our Best Human Services Graduate Certificate Schools list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Clark University. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Human Services Graduate Certificate Schools list. Clark is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Worcester.
Clark graduate students pay an average of $47,730 in tuition and fees each year.
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Majors Related to Human Services
Human Services is one of 5 different types of programs to choose from.
Majors Similar to Human Services
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Social Work | 58,326 |
| Public Administration | 16,905 |
| Public Policy | 6,430 |
| Community Organization & Advocacy | 3,096 |
| Other Public Administration | 588 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 5 schools only.
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Credit for the banner image above goes to University of the Fraser Valley.
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