2023 Most Popular Colleges for Labor & Industrial Relations in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Labor Relations Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Labor & Industrial Relations is the 315th most popular major in the country with 1,789 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 53 labor and industrial relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Labor Relations Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in labor and industrial relations. To top this list, a school must have a successful labor and industrial relations program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Well Attended Labor Relations Major in the Southeast Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Most Well Attended Labor Relations Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region labor relations students.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Labor & Industrial Relations in the Southeast Region

1

West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia

$46,248 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,343 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend West Virginia University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Labor Relations Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Morgantown, West Virginia, this large public school awarded 29 degrees to qualified ’s labor relations students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Labor & Industrial Relations at West Virginia University

2

Marshall University
Huntington, West Virginia

$46,274 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,833 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Marshall University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Labor Relations Major in the Southeast Region list. Marshall University is located in Huntington, West Virginia and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 24 ’s labor relations degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Labor & Industrial Relations at Marshall University

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Arunkumar Umapathy.