2024 Best Human Resource Management Doctor's Degree Schools in California

Human Resource Management is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #72 most popular doctor's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual reviewed 2 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of human resource management. Combined, these schools handed out 81 doctor's degrees in human resource management to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on human resource management students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other human resource management students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for human resource management to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized human resource management related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for human resource management students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Human Resource Management Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Human Resource Management Doctor's Degree Schools in California ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Human Resource Management in California

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in human resource management.

Top California Schools for a Doctorate in HR

1

The University of Arizona Global Campus
San Diego, CA

33 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat The University of Arizona Global Campus if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in human resource management. Located in the large city of San Diego, UAGC is a private for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in human resource management from The University of Arizona Global Campus

2

Alliant International University
San Diego, CA

15 Annual Graduates

$90,061 Median Starting Salary

Alliant International University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in human resource management. Alliant is a small private for-profit university located in the large city of San Diego.

Human Resource Management doctor's degree recipients from Alliant International University earn a boost of approximately $7,020 above the typical earnings of human resource management majors.

More information about a doctorate in human resource management from Alliant International University

Best Human Resource Management Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Human Resource Management Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Nevada	84	0

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Rankings in Majors Related to HR

One of 21 majors within the Business, Management & Marketing area of study, Human Resource Management has other similar majors worth exploring.

HR Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Organizational Behavior Studies	81

Most Popular Majors Related to HR

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	383
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	32
International Business	8
Management Information Systems	4
Entrepreneurial Studies	3
Other Business, Management & Marketing	3

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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. More about our data sources and methodologies.