Human Resource Management at Santa Clara University

What traits are you looking for in a HR school? To help you decide if Santa Clara University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's HR program.

SCU is located in Santa Clara, California and approximately 8,616 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 33 students received a bachelor's degree in HR from SCU.

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.

SCU Human Resource Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in HR

SCU Human Resource Management Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The HR major at SCU 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
	7
	8
	10
	19
	169
	201
	348
	401

HR Student Demographics at SCU

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

SCU Human Resource Management Bachelor’s Program

Of the 33 HR students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from SCU, about 52% were men and 48% were women. The typical HR bachelor's degree program is made up of only 27% men. So male students are more repesented at SCU since its program graduates 24% more men than average.

About 70% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in HR at SCU 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 Santa Clara University with a bachelor's in HR.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	23
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

SCU 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 Santa Clara University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Organizational Behavior Studies	33

Related Majors

• Business/Managerial Economics
• Management Information Systems
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Accounting
• Marketing

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 CA, the home state for Santa Clara University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Human Resources Specialists	64,980	$75,010
Training and Development Specialists	28,850	$73,040
Human Resources Managers	19,050	$142,870
Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists	10,220	$74,560
Labor Relations Specialists	7,920	$80,270

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 Arnaudh under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.