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2023 Best Value Human Resource Management Master's Degree Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

15 Colleges
$17,493 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$56,826 Avg Salary

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

In 2020-2021, 923 degrees and certificates were awarded to human resource management students who went to a Illinois college or university. This makes it the #13 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Human Resource Management Master's Degree Schools in Illinois to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 15 schools in Illinois to see which ones offered the best value master's degree programs for HR students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used 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 Illinois

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for HR majors pursuing a master's degree.

Top 10 Best Human Resource Management Master's Degree Schools

Our 2023 rankings named Rasmussen University - Illinois the best value school in Illinois for human resource management students working on their master’s degree. Located in the midsize city of Rockford, Rasmussen University - Illinois is a private for-profit college with a small student population.

Rasmussen University - Illinois graduate students pay an average of $5,615 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value human resource management schools in Illinois. UIUC is a fairly large public school located in the city of Champaign.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UIUC are $17,823 per year.

UIUC did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois list.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of St Francis. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois list. Located in the suburb of Joliet, University of Saint Francis is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at University of Saint Francis are $13,839 per year.

University of Saint Francis did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois list.

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#4

Eastern Illinois University

Charleston, IL

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Eastern Illinois University is a great value for human resource management students working on their master’s degree. EIU is a moderately-sized public school located in the town of Charleston.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at EIU are $10,640 per year.

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A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Northeastern Illinois University is a great value for human resource management students working on their master’s degree. Located in the city of Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

Northeastern Illinois University graduate students pay an average of $9,428 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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With a ranking of #6, Loyola University Chicago did quite well on this year’s best value schools for human resource management students working on their master’s degree. Loyola Chicago is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Chicago.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Loyola Chicago are $19,894 per year.

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#7

DePaul University

Chicago, IL

DePaul University ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois list. DePaul is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at DePaul are $18,341 per year.

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#8

North Park University

Chicago, IL

North Park University ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois list. North Park is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Chicago.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at North Park are $14,184 a year.

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Benedictine University ranked #9 on this year’s Best Value Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois list. Located in the suburb of Lisle, Benedictine U is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Benedictine U are $19,640 per year.

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#10

Chicago State University

Chicago, IL

Chicago State University ranked #10 on this year’s Best Value Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois list. CSU is a small public school located in the city of Chicago.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at CSU are $9,728 a year.

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Best Value Human Resource Management Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Human Resource Management Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 325
Ohio 244
Indiana 128
Wisconsin 85

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

Majors Similar to HR

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 15 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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