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

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 South Dakota” 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 South Dakota, there were 36 human resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,900 and $40,793 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 human resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

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.

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.

More Ways to Rank Human Resource Management Schools

The hr school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota”.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota

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

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

#1

Black Hills State University

Spearfish, South Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$8,384 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Black Hills State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value HR Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota list. This small school is located in Spearfish, South Dakota, and it awarded 11 masters’s HR degrees in 2019-2020.

BHSU also made our “Best Human Resource Management Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at BHSU are $8,384, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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

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