2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management in Kansas

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 Kansas” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Kansas, there were 255 human resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,433 and $35,790 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 85 human resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,499 and $30,950 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in Kansas” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer 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.

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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Kansas” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in Kansas

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

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management in Kansas

#1

Pittsburg State University

Pittsburg, Kansas

#1 in overall quality

$19,320 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$50,856 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Pittsburg State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in Kansas. Located in Pittsburg, Kansas, this medium-sized public school awarded 16 diplomas to qualified masters’s HR students in 2019-2020.

Pitt State also took the #1 spot in our “Best Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in Kansas” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Pittsburg State University are $19,320.

Read more about Human Resource Management at Pittsburg State University

#2

Ottawa University - Kansas City

Overland Park, Kansas

#2 in overall quality

$11,738 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ottawa University - Kansas City. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in Kansas. Ottawa University - Kansas City is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Overland Park, Kansas. It awarded 9 masters’s HR degrees in 2019-2020.

Ottawa University - Kansas City did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in Kansas” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Ottawa University - Kansas City are $11,738, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Ottawa University - Kansas City Human Resource Management Report

#3

Grantham University

Lenexa, Kansas

#3 in overall quality

$4,800 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$54,661 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Grantham University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in Kansas. Lenexa, Kansas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out masters’s HR degrees to 59 students in 2019-2020.

Grantham University also made our “Best Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in Kansas” list, coming in at #3. Average graduate tuition and fees at Grantham University are $4,800, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Human Resource Management at Grantham University

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management in the Plains States Region
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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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