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2022 Best Value HR Development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

5 Ranked Colleges
70 Degrees Awarded
$18,700 Avg Net Price*
Best Value HR Development Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value HR Development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the Southeast region, there were 256 human resources development graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 70 human resources development graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value HR Development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in human resources development. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality human resources development programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the human resources development program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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

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

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

#1

University of Arkansas

Fayetteville, Arkansas
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arkansas. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value HR Development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Located in Fayetteville, Arkansas, this large public school awarded 23 degrees to qualified bachelors’s HR development students in 2019-2020.

UARK not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Human Resources Development Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend University of Arkansas is $16,381 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree HR Development students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value HR Development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Louisiana State University is a large school located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana that handed out 10 bachelors’s HR development degrees in 2019-2020.

Louisiana State University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Human Resources Development Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College is $15,465 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree HR Development students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read full report on Human Resources Development at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

#3

Limestone College

Gaffney, South Carolina
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Limestone College. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value HR Development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. This small school is located in Gaffney, South Carolina, and it awarded 26 bachelors’s HR development degrees in 2019-2020.

Limestone College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Human Resources Development Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $22,707 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree HR Development students per year to attend Limestone College.

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#4

Mercer University

Macon, Georgia
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value HR Development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mercer University landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Macon, Georgia, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 10 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s HR development students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree hr development students list, Mercer has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Human Resources Development Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $21,464 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree HR Development students per year to attend Mercer University.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

Read more about Human Resources Development at Mercer

#5

Tusculum University

Greeneville, Tennessee
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value HR Development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Tusculum University landed the #5 spot on the list. Tusculum is located in Greeneville, Tennessee and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s HR development degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree hr development students list, Tusculum has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Human Resources Development Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $17,537 for southeast region bachelor’s degree hr development students per year to attend Tusculum.

Read more about Human Resources Development at Tusculum

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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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