2022 Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in Maine

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Maine” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Maine, there were 19 human resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 human resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,633 and $49,829 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality human resource management programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the human resource management program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Value HR Schools for a Master’s in Maine” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in Maine

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in Maine.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management in Maine

#1

Thomas College

Waterville, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$28,430 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Thomas College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in Maine list. Thomas College is a small school located in Waterville, Maine that handed out 4 masters’s HR degrees in 2019-2020.

Thomas College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Thomas College are $28,430, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Human Resource Management at Thomas College

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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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