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Best Value Human Services Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region

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2023 Best Value Human Services Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$14,814 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$40,488 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Human Services Master's Degree 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. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Human Services Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in the New England Region to see which ones offered the best value master's degree programs for human services students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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.

2023 Best Value Human Services Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for human services majors pursuing a master's degree.

Best New England Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Human Services

#1

Post University

Waterbury, CT

Our 2023 rankings named Post University the best value school in the New England Region for human services students working on their master’s degree. Located in the suburb of Waterbury, Post University is a private for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Post University are $7,700 per year.

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#2

Albertus Magnus College

New Haven, CT

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Albertus Magnus College is a great value for human services students working on their master’s degree. Located in the midsize city of New Haven, Albertus Magnus is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Albertus Magnus are $21,928 a year.

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Best Human Services Colleges by State

Explore the best human services colleges for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 301
Connecticut 272
New Hampshire 494
Maine 85
Vermont 25

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 2 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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