At MSU Denver, you can choose from five Human Services concentrations, offering clear career pathways in these areas:

• Addiction Studies
• High Risk Youth Studies
• Mental Health Counseling
• Nonprofit Studies
• Paramedic

Learning in small classes from professors who have worked in the field, you will receive countless opportunities to learn by doing that include field trips, service-learning, 750 hours of skill-building practicums and an internship, research and even study abroad experiences.

By the time you graduate, you will have the academic credentials, resume and professional connections to begin a career or pursue graduate studies.

he Human Services bachelor’s degree program offers an enormous range of career choices.

Addiction professionals, youth counselors, mental health counselors, nonprofit administrators and emergency responders, these are just a smattering of the professions you can enter as an MSU Denver Human Services graduate.

Students who complete the Addiction Studies concentration can apply to the Department of Regulatory Agencies to become a Certified Addictions Counselor after graduation.

Salaries in these fields range dramatically depending on whether or not you have a master’s degree from $30,000 to $70,000 a year and above.