2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Labor Relations Major in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Labor Relations Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 1,789 people earned their degree in labor and industrial relations, making the major the 315th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 53 labor and industrial relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 53 labor and industrial relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Labor Relations Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in labor and industrial relations. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in labor and industrial relations.

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The labor relations school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Labor Relations Major in the Southeast Region”.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Labor Relations Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree labor relations students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Labor & Industrial Relations in the Southeast Region

1

Marshall University
Huntington, West Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Marshall University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Labor Relations Major in the Southeast Region. Marshall University is a public institution located in Huntington, West Virginia. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 24 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Labor & Industrial Relations at Marshall University

2

West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia

Top 25% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend West Virginia University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Labor Relations Major in the Southeast Region list. WVU is located in Morgantown, West Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 29 masters’s labor relations degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Labor & Industrial Relations at West Virginia University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Labor & Industrial Relations

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Arunkumar Umapathy.