Houston, TX (population: 2,307,883) has three human resource management schools within its city limits. University of Houston, the highest ranked school in the city with a human resource management program, has a total student population of 37,000. It is the 1576th highest ranked school in the USA and the 66th highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University). To learn more about human resource management programs in Houston, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of human resource management professors at University of Houston such as Joann Beck, Tammy Beck, Robert Bobst, Nan Muir Bodensteiner, James Burrescia, and Robert Easley.
Human Resource Management students from Houston 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 Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown area alone, there are 2,430 employed human resources assistants earning an average salary of $37,460. Human resources managers in this area earn $117,650/yr and there are 670 employed.
Houston lies in Harris county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown area has 2,563,840 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.7% unemployment rate, $21.58/hr average worker wage, and a $44,880 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.261 out of every 1000 jobs in Houston are held by human resources managers, and 0.946/1000 are held by human resources assistants.
Of the 3 human resource management schools in Houston, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Phoenix-Houston Westside Campus comes out as the most expensive ($24,225/yr) for human resource management students, with University of Houston as the lowest, reported at only $10,281/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Houston |
| South Houston | TX | - | 1 | 23.7623 | 5 | 11.9 miles |
| Pearland | TX | 94,215 | 0 | - | 0 | 16.0 miles |
| Pasadena | TX | 148,101 | 8 | 24.6579 | 264 | 16.3 miles |
| Missouri City | TX | 77,622 | 0 | - | 0 | 16.5 miles |
| Baytown | TX | 71,405 | 1 | 12.8813 | 98 | 25.3 miles |
| League City | TX | 78,312 | 0 | - | 0 | 25.7 miles |
| The Woodlands | TX | 101,065 | 1 | 14.626 | 77 | 27.6 miles |
| Texas City | TX | 44,907 | 1 | 8.31197 | 63 | 35.9 miles |
| Conroe | TX | 61,600 | 0 | - | 0 | 38.3 miles |
| Prairie View | TX | - | 1 | 50.8259 | 82 | 42.2 miles |
| Galveston | TX | 57,154 | 3 | 22.3727 | 45 | 47.7 miles |
| Beaumont | TX | 110,900 | 4 | 27.5152 | 152 | 78.1 miles |
| College Station | TX | 90,406 | 1 | 0.218495 | 0 | 79.5 miles |
| Bryan | TX | 73,832 | 2 | 27.1681 | 5 | 85.5 miles |