Bachelor's · Macomb, Illinois
Is Human Resources Management and Services at Western Illinois University worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 2.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $57,777
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $75,357
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- Not enough borrowers to report
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $42k (likely $42k – $57k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $36k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in IL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.5 years (likely 1.8–3.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $126k (likely $8k – $276k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $574k (likely $326k – $899k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 49%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$87,182
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- Construction Management (Bachelor's)$85,974
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$85,383
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$85,221
- Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor's)$80,011
- Criminal Justice and Corrections (Master's)$78,861
- Engineering Technologies/Technicians, General (Bachelor's)$75,922
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$71,059
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$70,021
Human Resources Management and Services at other schools in Illinois
- Northwestern University$108,498
- Benedictine University$90,891
- University of St Francis$90,495
- Loyola University Chicago$86,190
- Lewis University$76,485
- Concordia University-Chicago$72,050
- North Central College$71,555
- Rasmussen University-Illinois$64,536
- McKendree University$63,519
- Northeastern Illinois University$63,276