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

If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in human resource management, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #72 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

In 2024, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Human Resource Management Doctor's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 30 doctor's degrees in human resource management during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

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

More Ways to Rank Human Resource Management Schools

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 Best Human Resource Management Doctor's Degree Schools in Illinois list to help you make the college decision.

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

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in human resource management.

Top Illinois Schools for a Doctorate in HR

1

Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

4 Annual Graduates

Northwestern University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in human resource management. Located in the city of Evanston, Northwestern is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in human resource management from Northwestern University

2

Benedictine University
Lisle, IL

25 Annual Graduates

Benedictine University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in human resource management. Benedictine U is a small private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Lisle.More information about a doctorate in human resource management from Benedictine University

Best Human Resource Management Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Human Resource Management Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	149	0
Ohio	144	4
Wisconsin	108	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	29
Labor & Industrial Relations	1

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	103
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	14
General Business/Commerce	7
Business/Managerial Economics	5
Finance & Financial Management	4
Marketing	3
Other Business, Management & Marketing	1

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.