Online Bachelor of Arts in Human Services

Finish Your Degree and Start a Career Helping Others

You’re ready to find your purpose and build a career focused on helping others. Now you need a degree that fits real life and lets you balance coursework with work and family responsibilities. Whitworth Online’s B.A. in Human Services is a 100 percent online degree-completion program designed for adults with no degree, some college or an A.A. or A.A.S. It will allow you to finish your bachelor’s and move into the helping professions.

Choose a Human Services concentration that fits your goals:

  • Child & Family Services
  • Counseling
  • Nonprofit Leadership
  • Public Service Administration

Why Choose Whitworth Online for Human Services?

  • Learn Online Without Pressing Pause

    Complete your bachelor’s in a format built for working adults, with six-week courses and five start dates per year.

  • Grow With a Supportive Cohort

    Move through the program with a small group of adult peers and benefit from one-on-one support from a dedicated academic advisor and faculty who care about your success.

  • Earn Credit for What You’ve Already Accomplished

    We maximize eligible transfer credits and may help you earn additional credit based on relevant professional experience so you can finish your degree faster.

  • Develop Skills that Translate Across Service Careers

    Build a well-rounded foundation in ethics, cultural humility, trauma-informed perspectives and effective communication, all skills you can use immediately in your current role and carry into new opportunities.

Why Earn a Degree from Whitworth Online?

  • There is no application fee, student fees, or book costs
  • Education you can apply immediately to your current job
  • Strong support from peers and expert faculty practitioners who are invested in your future
  • Scholarships, grants and financial aid available
  • Generous credit transfer policy with a clear path to your degree completion
  • Whitworth University is Ranked the No. 1 best value in the Northwest by U.S. News & World Report (2026)

Potential Careers

Graduates may pursue roles such as case manager, nonprofit program manager, community health worker/patient advocate, child advocate, crisis intervention specialist, domestic violence advocate, refugee and immigrant caseworker, program coordinator, and more.

Recent Whitworth human services graduates have earned jobs with:

  • Kaiser Permanente
  • Spokane Veterans Affairs Medical Center
  • Frontier Behavioral Health
  • Spokane Public Schools
  • State of Washington Department of Social and Health Services
  • Catholic Charities

Ready to Seek Your Future Career?

Learn to Lead With Purpose

Contact us to find out how we can help you gain the skills and knowledge you need to seek the career you truly want.

“Ask anyone who knows me — family, Whitworth University instructors, university staff, even my old Spokane Community College instructors and staff. All know that it is the right place for me and that I love attending Whitworth University.”

– Jaspar Grayson ’24