El Paso, TX (population: 631,862) has thirteen human resource management schools within a 500-mile radius of its city center. Midwestern State University, the highest ranked school in this group with a human resource management program, has a total student population of 6,341. It is the 547th highest ranked school in the USA and the 25th highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University). To learn more about human resource management programs in El Paso, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of human resource management professors at Midwestern State University such as Anthony Chelte, and Laura Martin.
Human Resource Management students from El Paso 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 El Paso area alone, there are 390 employed human resources assistants earning an average salary of $31,290. Human resources managers in this area earn $82,980/yr and there are 80 employed.
El Paso lies in El Paso county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the El Paso area has 269,250 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 2.0% unemployment rate, $16.37/hr average worker wage, and a $34,050 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.306 out of every 1000 jobs in El Paso are held by human resources managers, and 1.463/1000 are held by human resources assistants.
Of the 13 human resource management schools with a 500-mile radius of El Paso, only 2 have 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 Midwestern State University as the lowest, reported at only $7,596/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from El Paso |
| Las Cruces | NM | 95,663 | 3 | 29.6043 | 193 | 38.7 miles |
| Alamogordo | NM | - | 2 | 15.3602 | 50 | 77.8 miles |