Master's · West Chester, Pennsylvania
Is Human Resources Management and Services at West Chester University of Pennsylvania worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 5.1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $76,823
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $23,250
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Typical borrowing (no graduate net price is published)
- $25k (likely $25k – $25k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $9k a year vs bachelor's graduates 4 years out in PA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 5.1 years (likely 2.6–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$100k (likely −$196k – $4k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$384 (likely −$198k – $227k)
- Today's dollars
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Scorecard reports no net price for graduate programs; cost is based on what graduates typically borrowed.
Other majors at West Chester University of Pennsylvania
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$147,635
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Graduate certificate)$123,422
- Public Administration (Doctoral)$109,792
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Bachelor's)$98,013
- Statistics (Master's)$90,891
- Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$79,752
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management (Undergraduate certificate)$71,023
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$70,142
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$69,380
- Psychology, General (Master's)$66,610
- Public Health (Master's)$65,118
- Physics (Bachelor's)$64,200
Human Resources Management and Services at other schools in Pennsylvania
- Villanova University$121,007
- Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Harrisburg$103,541
- Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus$103,541
- Pennsylvania State University-World Campus$103,541
- University of Pennsylvania$102,306
- Temple University$97,819
- Drexel University$87,564
- University of Scranton$86,514
- Robert Morris University$81,906
- Saint Joseph's University - Philadelphia$81,642