Human Resource Management at University of Washington - Seattle Campus

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

UW Seattle is located in Seattle, Washington and has a total student population of 48,149. Of the 1,116 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Washington - Seattle Campus in 2021, 37 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.

UW Seattle Human Resource Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in HR

UW Seattle Human Resource Management Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks HR programs across the country. The following shows how UW Seattle 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 UW Seattle 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
	13
	74
	125
	291
	583

Earnings of UW Seattle HR Graduates

The median salary of HR students who receive their bachelor's degree at UW Seattle is $56,925. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 31% higher than the national average of $43,491 for all HR bachelor's degree recipients.

HR Student Demographics at UW Seattle

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

UW Seattle Human Resource Management Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 30% of HR bachelor's degrees went to men and 70% went to women. The typical HR bachelor's degree program is made up of only 27% men. So male students are more repesented at UW Seattle since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 6% 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 University of Washington - Seattle Campus with a bachelor's in HR.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	13
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	17
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

UW Seattle 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

Human Resource Management majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from University of Washington - Seattle Campus. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	37

Related Majors

• Taxation
• Entrepreneurial Studies
• Accounting
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• 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 WA, the home state for University of Washington - Seattle Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in WA	Average Salary in WA
Human Resources Specialists	17,250	$72,370
Training and Development Specialists	7,090	$76,800
Human Resources Managers	3,320	$134,070
Labor Relations Specialists	2,280	$77,070
Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists	1,870	$75,860

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 Joe Mabel under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.