Human Resource Management at Merrimack College

What traits are you looking for in a HR school? To help you decide if Merrimack College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's HR program.

Merrimack is located in North Andover, Massachusetts and has a total student population of 5,418. Of the 909 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Merrimack College in 2021, 7 of them were human resource management majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Human Resource Management section at the bottom of this page.

Merrimack Human Resource Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in HR

Merrimack Human Resource Management Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the HR progam at Merrimack compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The HR major at Merrimack is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Human Resource Management. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	172
Best Human Resource Management Schools	437
Most Popular Human Resource Management Schools	457

HR Student Demographics at Merrimack

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the HR majors at Merrimack College.

Merrimack Human Resource Management Bachelor’s Program

Of the 7 HR students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Merrimack, about 14% were men and 86% were women.

About 71% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in HR at Merrimack are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Merrimack College with a bachelor's in HR.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Merrimack also has a doctoral program available in HR. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• International Business
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Finance & Financial Management
• Marketing
• Accounting

Careers That HR Grads May Go Into

A degree in HR can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MA, the home state for Merrimack College.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Human Resources Specialists	17,130	$75,700
Training and Development Specialists	7,490	$75,270
Human Resources Managers	6,310	$140,640
Business Professors	4,050	$126,040
Labor Relations Specialists	2,640	$72,500

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Merrimack Colleges Church under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.