Louisville, KY (population: 556,482) has three human resource management schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Midway College, the highest ranked school in this group with a human resource management program, has a total student population of 1,392. It is the 327th highest ranked school in the USA and the 4th highest in the state of Kentucky (#1 is Centre College).
Human Resource Management students from Louisville schools who go on to become human resource managers, hr managers, human resource leaders, human resource specialists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 62,990 people working as human resources managers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $105,510. Also, Human resources assistants make on average $37,840 per year and there are about 161,920 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Louisville-Jefferson County-IN area alone, there are 500 employed human resources assistants earning an average salary of $36,250. Human resources managers in this area earn $92,660/yr and there are 480 employed.
Louisville lies in Jefferson county, which is one of the 55 counties in Kentucky. Overall, the Louisville-Jefferson County-IN area has 593,940 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.7% unemployment rate, $19.22/hr average worker wage, and a $39,970 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.809 out of every 1000 jobs in Louisville are held by human resources managers, and 0.845/1000 are held by human resources assistants.
Of the 3 human resource management schools with a 100-mile radius of Louisville, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Midway College comes out as the most expensive ($14,798/yr) for human resource management students, with Northern Kentucky University as the lowest, reported at only $9,991/yr.
|Name||State||Population||# of Schools||Avg School Rank||Total Programs||Distance from Louisville|
|New Albany||IN||-||1||50.4945||53||6.4 miles|
|Saint Catharine||KY||-||1||13.7868||38||44.1 miles|
|Crestview Hills||KY||-||1||24.073||65||83.8 miles|
|Oakland City||IN||-||1||58.4328||69||87.5 miles|
|Bowling Green||KY||56,941||5||29.5084||365||94.6 miles|