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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

42 Colleges
$15,332 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$56,826 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Human Resource Management Master'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.

The Best Value Human Resource Management Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 42 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which master's degree 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.

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 Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Check out the HR master's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Top 10 Best Human Resource Management Master's Degree Schools

Our analysis found Rasmussen University - Illinois to be the best value school for human resource management students who want to pursue a master’s degree in the Great Lakes Region . Located in the city of Rockford, Rasmussen University - Illinois is a private for-profit school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Rasmussen University - Illinois are $5,615 a year.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Baldwin Wallace University is a great value for human resource management students working on their master’s degree. Located in the suburb of Berea, Baldwin Wallace College is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Baldwin Wallace College graduate students pay an average of $11,363 in tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Concordia University, Wisconsin. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Concordia University, Wisconsin is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Mequon.

Concordia University, Wisconsin graduate students pay an average of $11,760 in tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Siena Heights University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the town of Adrian, Siena Heights University is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Siena Heights University are $13,458 per year.

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The excellent master’s degree programs at Indiana Wesleyan University - National & Global helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value human resource management schools in the Great Lakes Region . IWU is a large private not-for-profit school located in the rural area of Marion.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at IWU are $10,440 a year.

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University of St Francis came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Located in the large suburb of Joliet, University of Saint Francis is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at University of Saint Francis are $13,839 a year.

In addition to its great value ranking, University of Saint Francis is in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

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University of Wisconsin - Stout came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Located in the distant town of Menomonie, UW - Stout is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UW - Stout are $17,213 per year.

UW - Stout also claimed a spot on our Best Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools in this category.

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With a ranking of #8, Ottawa University - Milwaukee did quite well on this year’s best value schools for human resource management students working on their master’s degree. Ottawa University - Milwaukee is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Brookfield.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Ottawa University - Milwaukee are $9,368 a year.

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#9

Central Michigan University

Mount Pleasant, MI

With a ranking of #9, Central Michigan University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for human resource management students working on their master’s degree. Located in the town of Mount Pleasant, Central Michigan is a public school with a large student population.

Central Michigan graduate students pay an average of $15,644 in tuition and fees each year.

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#10

Marquette University

Milwaukee, WI

Marquette University came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Located in the city of Milwaukee, Marquette is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Marquette are $21,960 a year.

Marquette excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

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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 25 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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