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2022 Best Value HR Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid

6 Ranked Colleges
36 Degrees Awarded
$17,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value HR Schools for a Bachelor's in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value HR Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 26,616 people earned their degree in human resource management, making the major the 43rd most popular in the United States. 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 Tennessee, there were 204 human resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,756 and $42,701 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 36 human resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value HR Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the human resource management program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value HR Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value HR Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid.

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management in Tennessee (With Aid)

#1

Tennessee Wesleyan University

Athens, Tennessee
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tennessee Wesleyan University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value HR Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid. Athens, Tennessee is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s HR degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

TWU also made our “Best Human Resource Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list, coming in at #3. The estimated yearly cost for Tennessee Wesleyan University is $13,636 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree HR students with aid.

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#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value HR Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid. Located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, this fairly large public school awarded 3 degrees to qualified bachelors’s HR students in 2019-2020.

UT Chattanooga not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Human Resource Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list. The estimated yearly cost for UT Chattanooga is $12,952 for tennessee bachelor’s degree hr students with aid.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value HR Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Knoxville, Tennessee, this large public school awarded 28 degrees to qualified bachelors’s HR students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UT Knoxville, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Human Resource Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. It costs about $18,825 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree HR students with aid per year to attend UT Knoxville.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The low student loan default rate of 4.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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#4

Tusculum University

Greeneville, Tennessee
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tusculum University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value HR Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Greeneville, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s HR students in 2019-2020.

Tusculum also made our “Best Human Resource Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list, coming in at #4. It costs about $17,537 for tennessee bachelor’s degree hr students with aid per year to attend Tusculum University.

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#5

South College

Knoxville, Tennessee
#6 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South College. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value HR Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid. South College is a medium-sized school located in Knoxville, Tennessee that handed out 1 bachelors’s HR degrees in 2019-2020.

South College also made our “Best Human Resource Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list, coming in at #6. The estimated yearly cost for South College is $17,816 for tennessee bachelor’s degree hr students with aid.

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#6

Southern Adventist University

Collegedale, Tennessee
#5 in overall quality

Southern Adventist University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value HR Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid ranking. Collegedale, Tennessee is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s HR degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Southern Adventist not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Human Resource Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list. It costs about $22,661 for tennessee bachelor’s degree hr students with aid per year to attend Southern Adventist.

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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%.

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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.

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