2022 Most Popular Doctor's Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management in Illinois

If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in human resource management, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #67 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many colleges that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the most popular for doctor's degree seekers in the field of human resource management. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 10 doctor's degrees in human resource management during the 2019-2020 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Human Resource Management School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of school for getting your doctor's degree in HR matters. One of the reasons we created our Most Popular Doctor's Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management in Illinois ranking is to help you make that choice.

Being popular does not always equate to overall quality, but a school with a large number of human resource management students usually has them for a reason. This may be due to it being a great value, it offering a stellar educational experience, or the subject is a major focus of the school.

More Ways to Rank Human Resource Management Schools

This is not our only ranking, nor the only degree level we have ranked. In addition to this ranking, you may want to take at the rankings for different degree levels as called out above. You can also narrow your search by location by filtering for a certain area of the country. On top of that, you can visit our other rankings for human resource management.

Most Popular Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Human Resource Management in Illinois

Below you'll see a list of the most popular colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in human resource management.

Most Well Attended Schools for HR Students Working on Their Doctorate

1

Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

5 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#1 Best Quality In IL

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

You'll be surrounded by many like-minded peers at Northwestern University if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in human resource management. Located in the small city of Evanston, Northwestern is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. This isn't the only ranking where the school placed. It's also #1 in quality for doctor's degrees in human resource management in Illinois.

There were approximately 5 human resource management individuals who graduated with this degree at Northwestern in the most recent year we have data available.

More information about a doctorate in human resource management from Northwestern University

2

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

3 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#2 Best Quality In IL

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

You'll be surrounded by many like-minded peers at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign if you wish to pursue a doctor's degree in human resource management. UIUC is a very large public university located in the city of Champaign. You also may be intersted to know that the school ranks #2 in quality for doctor's degrees in human resource management in Illinois.

There were about 3 human resource management individuals who graduated with this degree at UIUC in the most recent year we have data available.

More information about a doctorate in human resource management from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Benedictine University
Lisle, IL

2 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#3 Best Quality In IL

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in human resource management needs to check out Benedictine University. Benedictine U is a small private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Lisle. You also may be intersted to know that the school ranks #3 in quality for doctor's degrees in human resource management in Illinois.

There were about 2 human resource management individuals who graduated with this degree at Benedictine U in the most recent data year.

More information about a doctorate in human resource management from Benedictine University

Best Human Resource Management Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	149	3
Ohio	144	3

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Rankings in Majors Related to HR

Human Resource Management is one of 21 different types of Business, Management & Marketing programs to choose from.

HR Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Organizational Behavior Studies	7
Labor & Industrial Relations	3

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	70
General Business/Commerce	16
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	11
Finance & Financial Management	4
Marketing	3
Business/Managerial Economics	2
Accounting	1

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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.