2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management (Income $75-$110k) in North Carolina

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 North Carolina, there were 248 human resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,550 and $34,538 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 89 human resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,088 and $45,388 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in human resource management. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality human resource management programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the human resource management program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. 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 “Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $75-$110k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for north carolina master’s degree hr students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management (Income $75-$110k) in North Carolina

#1

Western Carolina University

Cullowhee, North Carolina

#2 in overall quality

$17,821 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$56,641 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Carolina University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $75-$110k list. Western Carolina University is a fairly large public school situated in Cullowhee, North Carolina. It awarded 50 masters’s HR degrees in 2019-2020.

WCU also took the #2 spot in our “Best Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at WCU are $17,821, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full WCU Human Resource Management Report

#2

Meredith College

Raleigh, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$12,019 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Meredith College landed the #2 spot on the list. Raleigh, North Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s HR degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

Meredith also took the #1 spot in our “Best Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Meredith are $12,019, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Meredith College Human Resource Management Report

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management (Income $75-$110k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management (Income $75-$110k)

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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