2022 Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Making $48-$75k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 26,616 people earned their degree in human resource management, making the major the 43rd most popular in the United States. 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 Iowa, there were 430 human resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,100 and $29,824 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 52 human resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,298 and $45,299 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in human resource management. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent human resource management programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the human resource management program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management (Income $48-$75k) in Iowa

#1

Mount Mercy University

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$10,870 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$66,077 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mount Mercy University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Making $48-$75k. Cedar Rapids, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s HR degrees to 21 students in 2019-2020.

Mount Mercy also made our “Best Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in Iowa” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Mount Mercy University are $10,870.

Full Mount Mercy Human Resource Management Report

#2

Upper Iowa University

Fayette, Iowa

#2 in overall quality

$19,152 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$57,318 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Upper Iowa University landed the #2 spot on the list. Fayette, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s HR degrees to 31 students in 2019-2020.

UIU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in Iowa” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Upper Iowa University are $19,152, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Human Resource Management at UIU

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management (Income $48-$75k) in the Plains States Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management (Income $48-$75k)

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.

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