Human Resource Management at Merrimack College

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

Merrimack is located in North Andover, Massachusetts and approximately 5,418 students attend the school each year. Of the 259 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Merrimack College in 2021, 7 of them were human resource management majors.

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.

Merrimack Human Resource Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in HR

Merrimack Human Resource Management Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the HR progam at Merrimack 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 Merrimack 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
	92
	172
	217
	250
	258
	293
	437
	457
	515
	559

HR Student Demographics at Merrimack

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

Merrimack Human Resource Management Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 14% of HR bachelor's degrees went to men and 86% went to women.

About 71% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in HR at Merrimack 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 Merrimack College with a bachelor's in HR.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Merrimack 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

The following HR concentations are available at Merrimack College. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Merrimack College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	7

Related Majors

• International Business
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Finance & Financial Management
• Marketing
• Accounting

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 MA, the home state for Merrimack College.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Human Resources Specialists	17,130	$75,700
Training and Development Specialists	7,490	$75,270
Human Resources Managers	6,310	$140,640
Business Professors	4,050	$126,040
Labor Relations Specialists	2,640	$72,500

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
• Image Credit: By Merrimack Colleges Church under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.