2025 Best Human Resource Management Master's Degree Schools in Minnesota

If you pursue a master's degree in human resource management, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #22 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

College Factual looked at 6 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Human Resource Management Master's Degree Schools in Minnesota ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 562 master's degrees in human resource management during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Human Resource Management School for Your Master's Degree

The hr master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality hr program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to human resource management students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other human resource management students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt human resource management students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized human resource management related body.

Our complete 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.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Human Resource Management Master's Degree Schools in Minnesota list, to help you choose the best school for you.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Human Resource Management in Minnesota

Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for human resource management students seeking a a master's degree.

Top Minnesota Schools for a Master's in HR

1

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN

80 Annual Graduates

$92,241 Median Starting Salary

It is hard to beat University of Minnesota - Twin Cities if you want to pursue a master's degree in human resource management. Located in the large city of Minneapolis, UMN Twin Cities is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Master's recipients from the human resource management major at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities earn $20,488 more than the average college graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.

More information about a master’s in human resource management from University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

2

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
Winona, MN

22 Annual Graduates

$69,872 Median Starting Salary

It is hard to beat Saint Mary's University of Minnesota if you want to pursue a master's degree in human resource management. Located in the distant town of Winona, SMU MN is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.

Master's students who receive their degree from the hr program earn around $69,872 for their early career.

More information about a master’s in human resource management from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota

3

Bethel University Minnesota
Saint Paul, MN

23 Annual Graduates

$82,192 Median Starting Salary

Bethel University Minnesota is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in human resource management. Located in the large suburb of Saint Paul, Bethel University Minnesota is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.

Human Resource Management master's degree recipients from Bethel University Minnesota get an earnings boost of around $10,439 above the typical earnings of human resource management graduates.

More information about a master’s in human resource management from Bethel University Minnesota

4

Rasmussen University - Minnesota
St. Cloud, MN

23 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a master's degree in human resource management needs to take a look at Rasmussen University - Minnesota. Rasmussen University - Minnesota is a medium-sized private for-profit university located in the city of St. Cloud.More information about a master’s in human resource management from Rasmussen University - Minnesota

5

Concordia University, Saint Paul
Saint Paul, MN

27 Annual Graduates

$69,534 Median Starting Salary

Concordia University, Saint Paul is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Saint Paul.

Soon after graduating, hr master's recipients generally earn around $69,534 in the first five years of their career.

More information about a master’s in human resource management from Concordia University, Saint Paul

6

The College of Saint Scholastica
Duluth, MN

17 Annual Graduates

Located in the city of Duluth, St. Scholastica is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.More information about a master’s in human resource management from The College of Saint Scholastica

Best Human Resource Management Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Human Resource Management Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	193	397
Iowa	154	49
Kansas	149	95
Nebraska	123	137
North Dakota	115	3
South Dakota	89	13

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Human Resource Management Related Rankings by Major

Human Resource Management is one of 21 different types of Business, Management & Marketing programs to choose from.

HR Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	441
Labor & Industrial Relations	65
Organizational Behavior Studies	41
Other Human Resources Management and Services	15

Most Popular Majors Related to HR

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	2,506
Accounting	165
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	143
Taxation	27
Marketing	16
Finance & Financial Management	6
Management Information Systems	3

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Arunkumar Umapathy. More about our data sources and methodologies.