Virginia Beach, VA (population: 439,564) has two human resources schools within its city limits. Regent University, the highest ranked school in the city with a human resources program, has a total student population of 4,656. It is the 5495th highest ranked school in the USA and the 121st highest in the state of Virginia (#1 is Washington and Lee University). To learn more about human resources programs in Virginia Beach, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of human resources professors at Regent University such as Michael Ferber.
Human Resources students from Virginia Beach schools who go on to become human resource workers, hr managers, human resource managers, human resource specialists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 219,240 people working as human resources, training, and labor relations specialists alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $59,070. Also, Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists make on average $54,530 per year and there are about 198,190 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News-NC area alone, there are 1,030 employed employment, recruitment, and placement specialists earning an average salary of $41,630. Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists in this area earn $62,630/yr and there are 1,330 employed.
Virginia Beach lies in Virginia Beach county, which is one of the 61 counties in Virginia. Overall, the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News-NC area has 735,390 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.9% unemployment rate, $19.28/hr average worker wage, and a $40,100 average annual salary. Thus, about 1.813 out of every 1000 jobs in Virginia Beach are held by human resources, training, and labor relations specialists, and 1.397/1000 are held by employment, recruitment, and placement specialists.
Of the 2 human resources schools in Virginia Beach, none have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Regent University comes out as the most expensive ($18,449/yr) for human resources students, with Bryant and Stratton College-Virginia Beach as the lowest, reported at only $13,972/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Virginia Beach |
| Chesapeake | VA | 223,315 | 5 | 26.9533 | 56 | 15.5 miles |
| Norfolk | VA | 234,477 | 11 | 21.2525 | 420 | 16.7 miles |
| Portsmouth | VA | 102,540 | 2 | 19.0088 | 64 | 19.6 miles |
| Hampton | VA | 147,560 | 2 | 15.4443 | 49 | 25.5 miles |
| Suffolk | VA | 84,501 | 2 | 10.9214 | 2 | 33.4 miles |
| Newport News | VA | 182,057 | 4 | 29.3064 | 58 | 35.1 miles |
| Petersburg | VA | - | 3 | 33.8633 | 70 | 82.5 miles |
| Weldon | NC | - | 1 | 13.6824 | 51 | 89.1 miles |
| Highland Springs | VA | - | 1 | 3.25189 | 0 | 90.3 miles |
| Richmond | VA | 198,179 | 22 | 25.9212 | 685 | 95.9 miles |