Human Resource Management at Edgewood College

If you are interested in studying human resource management, you may want to check out the program at Edgewood College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Edgewood is located in Madison, Wisconsin and approximately 2,007 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 25 HR majors received their bachelor's degree from Edgewood.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Human Resource Management section at the bottom of this page.

Edgewood Human Resource Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in HR

Online Classes Are Available at Edgewood

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Edgewood offers distance education options for HR at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

Edgewood Human Resource Management Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the HR progam at Edgewood compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The HR major at Edgewood is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Human Resource Management. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	20
	74
	79
	108
	118
	125
	125
	134
	149
	241
	248
	267
	267
	372

In 2021, 0 student received their master’s degree in HR from Edgewood. This is the #268 most popular school for HR master’s degree candidates in the country.

HR Student Demographics at Edgewood

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the HR majors at Edgewood College.

Edgewood Human Resource Management Bachelor’s Program

Of the 25 HR students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Edgewood, about 28% were men and 72% were women.

About 68% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in HR at Edgewood are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Edgewood College with a bachelor's in HR.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	17
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Edgewood also has a doctoral program available in HR. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Concentrations Within Human Resource Management

If you plan to be a HR major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Edgewood College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Organizational Behavior Studies	25

Related Majors

• Management Information Systems
• Accounting
• Business Administration & Management
• General Business/Commerce

Careers That HR Grads May Go Into

A degree in HR can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for WI, the home state for Edgewood College.

Occupation	Jobs in WI	Average Salary in WI
Human Resources Specialists	14,150	$61,180
Training and Development Specialists	5,510	$55,070
Labor Relations Specialists	3,050	$42,650
Human Resources Managers	2,510	$118,330
Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists	1,310	$56,870

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online

More about our data sources and methodologies.