2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management (Income $30-$48k) in New Mexico

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in New Mexico For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Human Resource Management is the 43rd most popular major in the country with 26,616 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, human resource management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $46,242 and had an average of $34,825 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 18 human resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,900 and $36,650 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 human resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,864 and $37,250 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent human resource management programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the human resource management program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in New Mexico For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in New Mexico For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in New Mexico For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management (Income $30-$48k) in New Mexico

#1

University of the Southwest

Hobbs, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$22,500 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the Southwest. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in New Mexico For Those Making $30-$48k list. USW is a private not-for-profit institution located in Hobbs, New Mexico. The school has a small population, and it awarded 10 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

USW not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in New Mexico” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of the Southwest are $22,500, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Human Resource Management at University of the Southwest

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management (Income $30-$48k) in the Southwest Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management (Income $30-$48k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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