2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on HR Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Human Resource Management is the 45th most popular major in the country with 28,787 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, human resource management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $49,057 and had an average of $31,139 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 3,740 human resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,029 and $32,588 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 107 human resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on HR Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in human resource management. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their human resource management program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on HR Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on HR Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management in the Southeast Region

1

Regent University
Virginia Beach, Virginia

$80,507 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on HR Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Regent University landed the #1 spot on the list. Regent University is located in Virginia Beach, Virginia and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 103 doctorate’s HR degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Human Resource Management at Regent University

2

University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern Mississippi. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on HR Major in the Southeast Region. This fairly large school is located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and it awarded 4 doctorate’s HR degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Human Resource Management at University of Southern Mississippi

3

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on HR Major in the Southeast Region list. Louisiana State University is a large school located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana that handed out 144 doctorate’s HR degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full Louisiana State University Human Resource Management Report

3

Barry University
Miami, Florida

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Barry University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on HR Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Miami, Florida, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 30 degrees to qualified doctorate’s HR students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Human Resource Management at Barry University

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Human Resource Management

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.