City Tech Human Services (Bachelor's): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Bachelor's in Human Services, General
- Public college
- Brooklyn, NY
- About 91 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
City Tech human services graduates earn more than graduates of most human services programs nationally, $42,839 in their first year. Where this program stands out is debt. The typical graduate leaves with $9,000 in federal loans, less than at 99% of human services programs in the country. Strong value, but not one of the highest-paying human services degrees in New York.
How it compares
Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The New York and national columns are the medians across all human services bachelor's programs that report the figure.
Five years out, City Tech graduates earn more than the national figure and about $3,789 more than the New York median.
Debt and first-year pay at every New York human services program
Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the New York medians.
Hover over or tap a dot to see the school. Only programs that report both earnings and debt are shown.
What graduates earn over time
Pay rises about 25% between the first and fifth year.
Year 1 and year 5 figures come from different graduating classes, so the growth rate is an estimate.
Paying back the loans
On a standard 10-year plan, the median debt means a payment of about $95 a month, or 2.7% of a graduate's typical monthly pay in the first year.
The government publishes these as ranges to protect privacy. They were measured in 2018 to 2020, partly during the pandemic pause on federal loan payments, so the forbearance share may be higher than usual.
Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth
93% of graduates (171 of 183) were working in New York one year after graduating. Prices in the New York area are about 13% above the national average, so a $42,839 salary here buys what about $38,058 buys in a typical US city.
Careers this field leads to
These are the jobs that the federal crosswalk from fields of study to occupations links to human services, largest first. Pay is the median across all experience levels.
Social and Human Service Assistants
$47,190Median pay in New York. 40,970 people work in this job in New York. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 7% from 2025 to 2035, with about 48,900 openings a year. Typical education to start: high school diploma or equivalent.
Social and Community Service Managers
$95,980Median pay in New York. 19,340 people work in this job in New York. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 7% from 2025 to 2035, with about 18,500 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree, plus less than 5 years of related work experience.
About City Tech
Human Services ranks 10th of 18 bachelor's programs at City Tech by first-year earnings. The top three are Nursing ($103,611), Diagnostic and Treatment Professions ($92,818), and Construction Engineering Technology ($67,476).
Other human services bachelor's programs near Brooklyn
Common questions
The median graduate earns $42,839 one year after graduating and $53,637 five years after. The median across human services bachelor's programs in New York is $41,021.
The median federal loan balance is $9,000, which ranks the lowest of 7 human services bachelor's programs in New York. That works out to about $95 a month over 10 years.
On the numbers, yes for most students. Debt equals 21% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 83%, and the share of borrowers in default two years into repayment is 20% or less.
Most do. 93% (171 of 183) were working in New York one year after graduating.
About this data
- Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid (grants or loans).
- Earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school. Graduates who went straight to further study are not included.
- Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
- Some schools with several campuses report one combined figure for all of them. We count each of those schools once, and leave them out of New York comparisons when their main campus is in another state.
- Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago. BLS wages are from May 2025.
- School-level numbers like tuition, admission rate, and graduation rate are for the whole school, not the human services program.
Sources
- U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024
- NCES, CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk, and IPEDS institution directory, 2024