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2023 Best Value Human Resource Management Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$39,117 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$90,067 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Human Resource Management Doctor's Degree School for You

Out of all the majors we analyze each year, human resource management was ranked #26 in the country. In fact 12,117 degrees and certificates were handed out in 2020-2021.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. 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, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Human Resource Management Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for HR students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Human Resource Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Human Resource Management Doctor's Degree Colleges.

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Human Resource Management

Our 2023 rankings named Benedictine University the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for human resource management students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the suburb of Lisle, Benedictine U is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Benedictine U graduate students pay an average of $19,640 in tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Human Resource Management at Benedictine University

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Human Resource Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. UIUC is a fairly large public school located in the city of Champaign.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UIUC are $30,862 a year.

In addition to its great value ranking, UIUC is in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Human Resource Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

Read full report on Human Resource Management at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

#3

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Northwestern University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value human resource management schools in the Great Lakes Region . Northwestern is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Evanston.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Northwestern are $56,567 a year.

Northwestern not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Human Resource Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

Full Human Resource Management at Northwestern University Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Case Western Reserve University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Human Resource Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the city of Cleveland, Case Western is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

Case Western graduate students pay an average of $49,398 in tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Human Resource Management at Case Western Reserve University

Best Human Resource Management Colleges by State

Explore the best human resource management schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 325
Illinois 923
Ohio 244
Indiana 128
Wisconsin 85

Human Resource Management is one of 20 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management 131,555
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 31,701
Accounting 19,309
General Business/Commerce 9,137
Finance & Financial Management 5,784

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 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 Arunkumar Umapathy.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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