Bachelor's · Big Rapids, Michigan
Is Human Resources Management and Services at Ferris State 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 1.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $60,449
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $70,950
- 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
- $36k (likely $36k – $45k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $35k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MI
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.8 years (likely 1.3–2.8)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $150k (likely $36k – $281k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $566k (likely $326k – $864k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 44%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$115,819
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$106,347
- Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians (Bachelor's)$91,993
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management (Bachelor's)$91,678
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Graduate certificate)$91,584
- Construction Management (Bachelor's)$90,504
- Health and Medical Administrative Services (Undergraduate certificate)$88,737
- Energy Systems Technologies/Technicians (Bachelor's)$88,670
- Precision Metal Working (Associate's)$86,941
Human Resources Management and Services at other schools in Michigan
- University of Michigan-Ann Arbor$99,594
- Michigan State University$85,886
- Concordia University Ann Arbor$79,286
- University of Michigan-Dearborn$76,343
- Grand Valley State University$75,800
- Central Michigan University$73,340
- Western Michigan University$71,870
- Oakland University$70,347
- Davenport University$67,854
- University of Michigan-Flint$64,437