Human Resource Management at Rider University

If you plan to study human resource management, take a look at what Rider University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Rider is located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey and approximately 4,636 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 27 students received a bachelor's degree in HR from Rider.

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.

Rider Human Resource Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in HR

Rider Human Resource Management Rankings

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

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The HR major at Rider 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
	78
	161
	237
	417

Earnings of Rider HR Graduates

The median salary of HR students who receive their bachelor's degree at Rider is $46,863. This is 8% higher than $43,491, which is the national average for all HR bachelor's degree recipients.

HR Student Demographics at Rider

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

Rider Human Resource Management Bachelor’s Program

Of the 27 HR students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Rider, about 44% were men and 56% were women. The typical HR bachelor's degree program is made up of only 27% men. So male students are more repesented at Rider since its program graduates 17% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 13% more racial-ethnic minorities in its HR bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	12
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Rider 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 Rider University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Organizational Behavior Studies	14
Labor & Industrial Relations	13

Related Majors

• Business/Managerial Economics
• Management Information Systems
• Entrepreneurial Studies
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Finance & Financial Management

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 NJ, the home state for Rider University.

Occupation	Jobs in NJ	Average Salary in NJ
Human Resources Specialists	17,510	$75,360
Training and Development Specialists	6,590	$74,760
Human Resources Managers	4,100	$169,040
Labor Relations Specialists	3,640	$117,470
Business Professors	2,510	$111,740

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 Magneticcarpet under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.