Human Resource Management at University of Iowa

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

Iowa is located in Iowa City, Iowa and approximately 30,318 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 149 students received a bachelor's degree in HR from Iowa.

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.

Iowa Human Resource Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in HR

Iowa Human Resource Management Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks HR programs across the country. The following shows how Iowa performed in these rankings.

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 Iowa 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
	32
	74
	108
	282
	289

Earnings of Iowa HR Graduates

The median salary of HR students who receive their bachelor's degree at Iowa is $46,918. This is 8% higher than $43,491, which is the national average for all HR bachelor's degree recipients.

HR Student Demographics at Iowa

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

Iowa Human Resource Management Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 149 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in HR from Iowa. About 60% were men and 40% were women. The typical HR bachelor's degree program is made up of only 27% men. So male students are more repesented at Iowa since its program graduates 32% more men than average.

About 83% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in HR at Iowa 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 University of Iowa with a bachelor's in HR.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	12
White	123
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Labor & Industrial Relations	149

Related Majors

• Accounting
• Marketing
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Finance & Financial Management
• Business Administration & 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 IA, the home state for University of Iowa.

Occupation	Jobs in IA	Average Salary in IA
Human Resources Specialists	5,380	$57,960
Training and Development Specialists	3,190	$53,210
Human Resources Managers	1,570	$110,610
Business Professors	1,110	$114,450
Labor Relations Specialists	660	$62,690

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 KMSatoh202 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.