General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration at University of Maryland Global Campus

If you are interested in studying general human resources management/personnel administration, you may want to check out the program at University of Maryland Global Campus. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UMGC is located in Adelphi, Maryland and approximately 58,526 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 451 HR management majors received their bachelor's degree from UMGC.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration section at the bottom of this page.

UMGC General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration Degrees Available

• Undergrad Certificate in HR Management (1 - 4 Years)
• Bachelor’s Degree in HR Management

Online Classes Are Available at UMGC

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? UMGC offers distance education options for HR management at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

UMGC General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the HR management progam at UMGC 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 management major at UMGC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration. 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
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	2
	5
	6
	15
	29
	44
	62
	72

HR Management Student Demographics at UMGC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the HR management majors at University of Maryland Global Campus.

UMGC General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 26% of HR management bachelor's degrees went to men and 74% went to women. The typical HR management bachelor's degree program is made up of only 23% men. So male students are more repesented at UMGC since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 18% more racial-ethnic minorities in its HR management bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	19
Black or African American	171
Hispanic or Latino	73
White	124
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	61

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

Related Majors

Careers That HR Management Grads May Go Into

A degree in HR management can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MD, the home state for University of Maryland Global Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
Human Resources Specialists	12,710	$76,560
Training and Development Specialists	7,710	$67,420
Human Resources Managers	2,490	$141,780
Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists	2,040	$77,480
Labor Relations Specialists	1,320	$83,860

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 M Chambers under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.