Baltimore, MD (population: 632,410) has twenty-one human resource management schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Drexel University, the highest ranked school in this group with a human resource management program, has a total student population of 22,493. It is the 108th highest ranked school in the USA and the 8th highest in the state of Pennsylvania (#1 is University of Pennsylvania). To learn more about human resource management programs in Baltimore, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of human resource management professors at Drexel University such as Fred Dicostanzo, Larry Epstein, Sean Hackett, Ladha Kapil, Sudhir Mallya, and Milton Silver.
Human Resource Management students from Baltimore 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 Baltimore-Towson area alone, there are 1,680 employed human resources assistants earning an average salary of $40,100. Human resources managers in this area earn $102,480/yr and there are 670 employed.
Baltimore lies in Baltimore county, which is one of the 16 counties in Maryland. Overall, the Baltimore-Towson area has 1,259,140 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.2% unemployment rate, $23.40/hr average worker wage, and a $48,670 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.532 out of every 1000 jobs in Baltimore are held by human resources managers, and 1.338/1000 are held by human resources assistants.
Of the 21 human resource management schools with a 100-mile radius of Baltimore, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Drexel University comes out as the most expensive ($31,832/yr) for human resource management students, with American Public University System as the lowest, reported at only $10,370/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Baltimore |
| Dundalk | MD | 66,755 | 0 | - | 0 | 6.2 miles |
| Towson | MD | 55,491 | 3 | 39.9767 | 128 | 6.9 miles |
| Linthicum | MD | - | 1 | 23.7302 | 4 | 7.0 miles |
| Catonsville | MD | 43,590 | 0 | - | 0 | 7.5 miles |
| Severn | MD | 47,939 | 0 | - | 0 | 11.9 miles |
| Ellicott City | MD | 73,232 | 0 | - | 0 | 12.0 miles |
| Owings Mills | MD | - | 2 | 12.2029 | 18 | 12.3 miles |
| Arnold | MD | - | 2 | 15.7612 | 101 | 19.4 miles |
| Annapolis | MD | - | 2 | 37.2711 | 28 | 23.1 miles |
| Bowie | MD | 52,071 | 1 | 51.6519 | 53 | 24.5 miles |
| Lanham | MD | - | 1 | 24.0199 | 10 | 26.7 miles |
| Olney | MD | 41,213 | 1 | 14.4703 | 35 | 27.2 miles |
| Adelphi | MD | - | 1 | 12.6602 | 95 | 28.3 miles |
| Aspen Hill | MD | 53,748 | 0 | - | 0 | 29.1 miles |
| Takoma Park | MD | - | 1 | 13.9013 | 66 | 30.8 miles |
| Montgomery Village | MD | 43,313 | 0 | - | 0 | 32.2 miles |
| Rockville | MD | 63,567 | 2 | 20.9627 | 85 | 32.7 miles |
| North Bethesda | MD | 48,357 | 0 | - | 0 | 32.7 miles |
| Capitol Heights | MD | - | 1 | 32.1418 | 6 | 33.1 miles |
| Gaithersburg | MD | 59,755 | 2 | 35.5602 | 8 | 34.5 miles |
| Bethesda | MD | 59,221 | 1 | 7.29955 | 10 | 34.8 miles |
| Germantown | MD | 71,619 | 0 | - | 0 | 35.8 miles |
| Potomac | MD | 42,836 | 0 | - | 0 | 36.7 miles |
| McLean | VA | - | 1 | 24.682 | 8 | 39.6 miles |
| North East | MD | - | 1 | 7.7142 | 47 | 41.3 miles |
| Falls Church | VA | - | 1 | 13.4471 | 18 | 41.7 miles |
| Alexandria | VA | 147,786 | 6 | 19.205 | 130 | 42.0 miles |
| Frederick | MD | 59,727 | 2 | 38.8415 | 121 | 44.2 miles |
| Annandale | VA | 60,438 | 3 | 18.9314 | 107 | 45.8 miles |
| York | PA | - | 10 | 26.4605 | 240 | 46.3 miles |