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

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

42 Colleges
$15,332 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$56,826 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Human Resource Management Master'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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Human Resource Management Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. This report analyzed 42 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which ones offered the best value master's degree programs for HR students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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 Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Human Resource Management Master's Degree Colleges.

Top 10 Best Human Resource Management Master's Degree Schools

Our analysis found Rasmussen University - Illinois to be the best value school for human resource management students who want to pursue a master’s degree in the Great Lakes Region . Rasmussen University - Illinois is a small private for-profit school located in the city of Rockford.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Rasmussen University - Illinois are $5,615 per year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Baldwin Wallace University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Baldwin Wallace College is a small private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Berea.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Baldwin Wallace College are $11,363 per year.

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Concordia University, Wisconsin is a great value for human resource management students working on their master’s degree. Located in the suburb of Mequon, Concordia University, Wisconsin is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.

Concordia University, Wisconsin graduate students pay an average of $11,760 in tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Siena Heights University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Siena Heights University is a small private not-for-profit school located in the distant town of Adrian.

Siena Heights University graduate students pay an average of $13,458 in tuition and fees each year.

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The excellent master’s degree programs at Indiana Wesleyan University - National & Global helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value human resource management schools in the Great Lakes Region . Located in the rural area of Marion, IWU is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.

IWU graduate students pay an average of $10,440 in tuition and fees each year.

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University of St Francis came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. University of Saint Francis is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Joliet.

University of Saint Francis graduate students pay an average of $13,839 in tuition and fees each year.

University of Saint Francis also claimed a spot on our Best Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools in this category.

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University of Wisconsin - Stout ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. UW - Stout is a moderately-sized public school located in the town of Menomonie.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UW - Stout are $17,213 per year.

UW - Stout also claimed a spot on our Best Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools in this category.

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Ottawa University - Milwaukee ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the suburb of Brookfield, Ottawa University - Milwaukee is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Ottawa University - Milwaukee graduate students pay an average of $9,368 in tuition and fees each year.

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#9

Central Michigan University

Mount Pleasant, MI

Central Michigan University came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Central Michigan is a fairly large public school located in the town of Mount Pleasant.

Central Michigan graduate students pay an average of $15,644 in tuition and fees each year.

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#10

Marquette University

Milwaukee, WI

Marquette University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for human resource management students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #10 on the list. Marquette is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Milwaukee.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Marquette are $21,960 per year.

In addition to its great value ranking, Marquette is in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

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Best Human Resource Management Colleges by State

Explore the best human resource management colleges 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 25 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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