2022 Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Human Resource Management is the 43rd most popular major in the country with 26,616 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, human resource management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $46,242 and had an average of $34,825 in loans still to pay off.

Across North Carolina, there were 248 human resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,550 and $34,538 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 89 human resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,088 and $45,388 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in human resource management. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality human resource management 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 resource management program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management (Income $30-$48k) in North Carolina

#1

Western Carolina University

Cullowhee, North Carolina

#2 in overall quality

$17,821 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$56,641 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Carolina University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k. This fairly large school is located in Cullowhee, North Carolina, and it awarded 50 masters’s HR degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at WCU, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at WCU are $17,821, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Human Resource Management at WCU

#2

Meredith College

Raleigh, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$12,019 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Meredith College landed the #2 spot on the list. Meredith College is a small school located in Raleigh, North Carolina that handed out 3 masters’s HR degrees in 2019-2020.

Meredith also took the #1 spot in our “Best Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Meredith College are $12,019, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Meredith Human Resource Management Report

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management (Income $30-$48k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management (Income $30-$48k)

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.

Credits

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

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