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

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in Alabama” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Alabama, there were 444 human resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,200 and $35,296 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 113 human resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,487 and $41,507 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in Alabama” 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 Alabama

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

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management in Alabama

#1

Troy University

Troy, Alabama

#1 in overall quality

$16,156 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$45,696 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Troy University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in Alabama. This fairly large school is located in Troy, Alabama, and it awarded 100 masters’s HR degrees in 2019-2020.

TROY not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in Alabama” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Troy University are $16,156, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Human Resource Management at Troy University

#2

Strayer University - Alabama

Birmingham, Alabama

#2 in overall quality

$15,135 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$46,855 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Strayer University - Alabama. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in Alabama list. Strayer University - Alabama is a small school located in Birmingham, Alabama that handed out 13 masters’s HR degrees in 2019-2020.

Strayer University - Alabama also took the #2 spot in our “Best Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in Alabama” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Strayer University - Alabama are $15,135.

Full Strayer University - Alabama Human Resource Management Report

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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.

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