If you plan on getting your master's degree in human computer interaction, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #132 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for human computer interaction students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 251 master's degrees in human computer interaction to qualified students.
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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 many resources a school devotes to human computer interaction students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other human computer interaction students want to attend this school to pursue a master's 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 computer interaction 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 computer interaction related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for human computer interaction students working on their master's degree.
The human computer interaction school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Human Computer Interaction Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region.
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Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in human computer interaction needs to check out Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis. IUPUI is a fairly large public university located in the city of Indianapolis.
Human Computer Interaction master's degree recipients from Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis receive an earnings boost of approximately $4,589 above the typical income of human computer interaction graduates.
Any student who is interested in a master's degree in human computer interaction has to look into DePaul University. DePaul is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Chicago.
Master's graduates who receive their degree from the human computer interaction program make about $82,399 in their early career salary.
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).
