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2023 Best Value Human Resource Management Graduate Certificate Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$13,691 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$47,300 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Human Resource Management Graduate Certificate School for You

With 1,233 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, human resource management is the #22 most popular major in California.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

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 Graduate Certificate Schools in California ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in California to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for HR students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Human Resource Management Graduate Certificate Schools in California

Check out the HR graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best California Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Human Resource Management

#1

Brandman University

Irvine, CA

Our 2023 rankings named Brandman University the best value school in California for human resource management students working on their graduate certificate. Brandman is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Irvine.

Brandman graduate students pay an average of $12,720 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Brandman excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Human Resource Management Graduate Certificate Schools in California list.

Full Human Resource Management at Brandman University Report

The excellent graduate certificate programs at California State University - Northridge helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value human resource management schools in California. Located in the city of Northridge, CSUN is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at CSUN are $8,477 a year.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Golden Gate University - San Francisco helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value human resource management schools in California. Golden Gate University - San Francisco is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of San Francisco.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Golden Gate University - San Francisco are $19,875 a year.

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Best Value Human Resource Management Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value Human Resource Management Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Washington 18
Oregon 15
Nevada 0
Hawaii 0
Alaska 0

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 3 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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