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2023 Best Value Human Resource Management Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

4 Colleges
$39,117 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$90,067 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Human Resource Management Doctor's Degree School for You

Human Resource Management is the #44 most popular major in the country with 28,787 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Human Resource Management Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for HR students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Human Resource Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for HR majors pursuing a doctor's degree.

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Human Resource Management

Our analysis found Benedictine University to be the best value school for human resource management students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in the Great Lakes Region . Benedictine U is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Lisle.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Benedictine U are $19,640 a year.

Full Human Resource Management at Benedictine University Report

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value human resource management schools in the Great Lakes Region . Located in the small city of Champaign, UIUC is a public college with a fairly large student population.

UIUC graduate students pay an average of $30,862 in tuition and fees each year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, UIUC also did well on our Best Human Resource Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Read full report on Human Resource Management at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

#3

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Northwestern University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value human resource management schools in the Great Lakes Region . Located in the small city of Evanston, Northwestern is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Northwestern are $56,567 a year.

Northwestern not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Human Resource Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

Full Human Resource Management at Northwestern University Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Case Western Reserve University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Human Resource Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Case Western is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Cleveland.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Case Western are $49,398 a year.

Read full report on Human Resource Management at Case Western Reserve University

Best Human Resource Management Colleges by State

Explore the best human resource management schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 1,262
Ohio 1,002
Illinois 1,254
Indiana 369
Wisconsin 596

One of 21 majors within the area of study, human resource management has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management 416,590
Accounting 99,265
Finance & Financial Management 57,778
General Business/Commerce 56,042
Marketing 52,916

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 schools only.

  • 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.

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