by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended HR Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 28,787 people earned their degree in human resource management, making the major the 45th most popular in the United States. 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 Alabama, there were 452 human resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,622 and $28,852 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 311 human resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,756 and $28,178 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended HR Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 9 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in human resource management. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in human resource management.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended HR Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended HR Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia Southern University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended HR Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s list. Columbia Southern University is a fairly large school located in Orange Beach, Alabama that handed out 165 bachelors’s HR degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Columbia Southern University Human Resource Management Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Faulkner University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended HR Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Montgomery, Alabama, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 48 degrees to qualified bachelors’s HR students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alabama at Birmingham. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended HR Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s. This large school is located in Birmingham, Alabama, and it awarded 31 bachelors’s HR degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Out of the 9 schools in the Most Well Attended HR Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Athens State University landed the #4 spot on the list. Athens State University is a small school located in Athens, Alabama that handed out 24 bachelors’s HR degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Human Resource Management at Athens State University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oakwood University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Most Well Attended HR Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s list. Oakwood University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Huntsville, Alabama. The school has a small population, and it awarded 21 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read more about Human Resource Management at Oakwood University
Amridge University did quite well in the 2023 Most Well Attended HR Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s ranking, coming in at #6. Located in Montgomery, Alabama, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 9 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s HR students in 2020-2021.
Auburn University at Montgomery landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Most Well Attended HR Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s ranking. Auburn University at Montgomery is a medium-sized public school situated in Montgomery, Alabama. It awarded 9 bachelors’s HR degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Human Resource Management at Auburn University at Montgomery
Auburn University did quite well in the 2023 Most Well Attended HR Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s ranking, coming in at #8. Auburn is located in Auburn, Alabama and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s HR degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.
University of Mobile ranked #8 on this year’s Most Well Attended HR Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s list. University of Mobile is located in Mobile, Alabama and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s HR degrees to qualified students.
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