by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on HR Development Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Human Resources Development is the 290th most popular major in the country with 2,315 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 368 human resources development graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 72 human resources development graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on HR Development Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in human resources development. That schools that top this list have a program in human resources development in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on HR Development Major in the Southeast Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on HR Development Major in the Southeast Region”.
Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on HR Development Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Limestone College landed the #1 spot on the list. Gaffney, South Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s HR development degrees to 12 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mercer University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on HR Development Major in the Southeast Region. Mercer is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Macon, Georgia. It awarded 14 bachelors’s HR development degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Human Resources Development at Mercer University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on HR Development Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this large public school awarded 25 degrees to qualified bachelors’s HR development students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on HR Development Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arkansas landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Fayetteville, Arkansas, this large public school awarded 21 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s HR development students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on HR Development Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Kentucky University landed the #5 spot on the list. NKU is located in Highland Heights, Kentucky and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s HR development degrees to qualified students.
Read more about Human Resources Development at Northern Kentucky University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tusculum University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on HR Development Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Greeneville, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 38 degrees to qualified bachelors’s HR development students in 2020-2021.
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