Mesa, AZ (population: 474,115) has six human resource management schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Grand Canyon University, the highest ranked school in this group with a human resource management program, has a total student population of 34,205. It is the 2749th highest ranked school in the USA and the 34th highest in the state of Arizona (#1 is Northern Arizona University). To learn more about human resource management programs in Mesa, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of human resource management professors at Grand Canyon University such as Keisha Chambers, Jere Ferguson, Scott Quatro, Amber Ruffo, Rodney(rod) Smith, and Armando Sotero.
Human Resource Management students from Mesa 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 Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale area alone, there are 3,950 employed human resources assistants earning an average salary of $39,850. Human resources managers in this area earn $86,130/yr and there are 870 employed.
Mesa lies in Maricopa county, which is one of the 15 counties in Arizona. Overall, the Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale area has 1,763,410 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $20/hr average worker wage, and a $41,930 average annual salary. Thus, about 0 out of every 1000 jobs in Mesa are held by human resources managers, and 2/1000 are held by human resources assistants.
Of the 6 human resource management schools with a 100-mile radius of Mesa, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, DeVry University-Arizona comes out as the most expensive ($27,941/yr) for human resource management students, with Grand Canyon University as the lowest, reported at only $23,629/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Mesa |
| Gilbert | AZ | 243,090 | 0 | - | 0 | 6.3 miles |
| Tempe | AZ | 181,658 | 9 | 21.5079 | 137 | 11.2 miles |
| Chandler | AZ | 258,122 | 5 | 22.1433 | 88 | 11.2 miles |
| Scottsdale | AZ | 241,464 | 7 | 18.4016 | 124 | 20.1 miles |
| Phoenix | AZ | 1,635,783 | 32 | 17.3678 | 810 | 20.8 miles |
| Glendale | AZ | 255,662 | 10 | 18.0628 | 241 | 28.7 miles |
| Maricopa | AZ | 53,723 | 0 | - | 0 | 30.7 miles |
| Avondale | AZ | 89,387 | 5 | 24.8339 | 71 | 33.5 miles |
| Peoria | AZ | 168,424 | 5 | 16.2489 | 161 | 34.3 miles |
| Casa Grande | AZ | 47,388 | 1 | 16.7022 | 3 | 36.7 miles |
| Surprise | AZ | 104,876 | 0 | - | 0 | 45.2 miles |
| Buckeye | AZ | 61,572 | 0 | - | 0 | 49.1 miles |
| Prescott Valley | AZ | 41,046 | 1 | 8.12951 | 6 | 88.8 miles |
| Prescott | AZ | 44,035 | 4 | 31.39 | 279 | 90.0 miles |
| Tucson | AZ | 551,067 | 19 | 23.0062 | 495 | 97.8 miles |