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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Human Resources Development in the Great Lakes Region

5 Ranked Colleges
318 Degrees Awarded
$17,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value HR Development Schools for a Bachelor's in the Great Lakes Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value HR Development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Human Resources Development is the 313th most popular major in the country with 2,019 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 456 human resources development graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 318 human resources development graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value HR Development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in human resources development. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent human resources development programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the human resources development program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value HR Development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value HR Development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Human Resources Development in the Great Lakes Region

#3 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value HR Development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, this fairly large public school handed out 37 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s HR development students in 2019-2020.

UW Oshkosh did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Human Resources Development Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh is $15,463 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree hr development students.

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#2

Oakland University

Rochester Hills, Michigan
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oakland University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value HR Development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region. Oakland University is located in Rochester Hills, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 149 bachelors’s HR development degrees to qualified students.

Oakland did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Human Resources Development Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Oakland University is $11,802 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree HR Development students.

Read more about Human Resources Development at Oakland

#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value HR Development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee is a public institution located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The school has a large population, and it awarded 71 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UWM also took the #4 spot in our “Best Human Resources Development Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $17,876 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree HR Development students per year to attend UWM.

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#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northeastern Illinois University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value HR Development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region list. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s HR development degrees to 44 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our great lakes region bachelor’s degree hr development students list, Northeastern Illinois University has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Human Resources Development Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Northeastern Illinois University is $15,843 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree hr development students.

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#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Miami University - Oxford. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value HR Development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region. Miami University - Oxford is a fairly large school located in Oxford, Ohio that handed out 17 bachelors’s HR development degrees in 2019-2020.

Miami University - Oxford did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Human Resources Development Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. It costs about $24,323 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree HR Development students per year to attend Miami University - Oxford.

With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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Notes and References

References

  • 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 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).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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