Human Resource Management at Oakwood University

If you plan to study human resource management, take a look at what Oakwood University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Oakwood is located in Huntsville, Alabama and has a total student population of 1,374. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 21 students received a bachelor's degree in HR from Oakwood.

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.

Oakwood Human Resource Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in HR

Online Classes Are Available at Oakwood

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

For those who are interested in distance learning, Oakwood does offer online courses in HR for the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Oakwood Human Resource Management Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The HR major at Oakwood 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
Most Popular Online Human Resource Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	37
Most Popular Human Resource Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	130

HR Student Demographics at Oakwood

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

Oakwood Human Resource Management Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 21 HR majors earned their bachelor's degree from Oakwood. Of these graduates, 43% were men and 57% were women. The typical HR bachelor's degree program is made up of only 27% men. So male students are more repesented at Oakwood since its program graduates 16% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 39% more racial-ethnic minorities in its HR bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	16
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	1
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

• Marketing
• Accounting
• Finance & Financial Management
• Business Administration & Management
• Management Information Systems

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 AL, the home state for Oakwood University.

Occupation	Jobs in AL	Average Salary in AL
Human Resources Specialists	5,350	$60,660
Training and Development Specialists	2,330	$60,280
Human Resources Managers	1,280	$105,190
Labor Relations Specialists	1,010	$42,590
Business Professors	840	$98,110

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.