2025 Best Human Resource Management Associate Degree Schools in Arizona

an associate degree in human resource management is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #85 out of 328 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Arizona to determine which ones were the best for human resource management students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 129 associate degrees in human resource management during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Human Resource Management School for Your Associate Degree

The hr associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their associate degree from the school. After all, your associate 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 - How many other human resource management students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
• 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 associate 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 colleges for human resource management students working on their associate 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 Associate Degree Schools in Arizona ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Human Resource Management in Arizona

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in human resource management.

Top Arizona Schools for an Associate in HR

1

Mesa Community College
Mesa, AZ

21 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Mesa Community College if you want to pursue an associate degree in human resource management. Mesa Community College is a large public college located in the large city of Mesa.More information about a associate in human resource management from Mesa Community College

2

Rio Salado College
Tempe, AZ

16 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Rio Salado College if you want to pursue an associate degree in human resource management. Rio Salado College is a fairly large public college located in the medium-sized city of Tempe.More information about a associate in human resource management from Rio Salado College

3

Phoenix College
Phoenix, AZ

17 Annual Graduates

Phoenix College is a wonderful decision for students interested in an associate degree in human resource management. Phoenix College is a large public college located in the large city of Phoenix.More information about a associate in human resource management from Phoenix College

Best Human Resource Management Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Best Human Resource Management Colleges in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	200	12
Oklahoma	136	1

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Rankings in Majors Related to HR

One of 21 majors within the Business, Management & Marketing area of study, Human Resource Management has other similar majors worth exploring.

HR Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Organizational Behavior Studies	103
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	26

Majors Similar to HR

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	4,015
General Business/Commerce	350
Accounting	163
Hospitality Management	29
Marketing	26
Other Business, Management & Marketing	14
Business Support & Assistant Services	11
Entrepreneurial Studies	11
Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing	10
Finance & Financial Management	4

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.