Human Resource Management is of the hottest master's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #22 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Arizona to determine which ones were the best for human resource management students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 109 master's degrees in human resource management during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on human resource management students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of human resource management students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for human resource management to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized human resource management related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for human resource management students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Human Resource Management Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Human Resource Management Master's Degree Schools in Arizona ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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It is hard to beat University of Phoenix - Arizona if you wish to pursue a master's degree in human resource management. Located in the large city of Phoenix, UOPX - Arizona is a private for-profit university with a fairly large student population.
Master's students who receive their degree from the hr program make an average of $55,227 for their early career.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
