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Most Popular Schools for Labor and Industrial Relations Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on employee-management interactions and the management of issues and disputes regarding working conditions and worker benefit packages, and that may prepare individuals to function as labor or personnel relations specialists. Includes instruction in labor history, policies and strategies of the labor movement, union organization, labor-management negotiation, labor law and contract interpretation, labor economics, welfare and benefit packages, grievance procedures, and labor policy studies.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Cornell University 357 6% $73,904
2 Pennsylvania State University-World Campus 219 5% $15,828
3 Rutgers University-New Brunswick 219 2% $32,443
4 SUNY Empire State College 180 5% $8,933
5 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 132 1% $30,102
6 Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 131 1% $36,652
7 University of Iowa 109 2% $24,239
8 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 100 1% $27,898
9 Cleveland State University 77 2% $29,045
10 Michigan State University 50 0% $28,862
11 Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus 41 1% $28,595
12 Marshall University 36 1% $21,969
13 University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras 34 2% $19,876
14 Seton Hall University 31 1% $59,670
15 Los Angeles Trade Technical College 29 1% $3,137
16 West Virginia University 29 0% $23,294
17 New York Institute of Technology 26 1% $58,496
18 CUNY Graduate School and University Center 22 1% N/A
19 Inter American University of Puerto Rico-Metro 17 1% $10,709
20 CUNY Bernard M Baruch College 17 0% $32,681
21 SUNY College at Old Westbury 15 1% $24,133
22 Clarion University of Pennsylvania 14 1% $27,975
23 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 14 0% $30,913
24 Rider University 14 1% $62,140
25 Wayne State University 13 0% $27,157
26 University of Rhode Island 5 0% $30,351
27 University of Maryland-Baltimore County 5 0% $28,058
28 University of Bridgeport 5 0% $55,583
29 Laney College 3 0% $3,172
30 University of Massachusetts-Boston 3 0% $36,647
31 Purdue University Fort Wayne 3 0% $22,200
32 Hawaii Pacific University 2 0% $44,414
33 University of New Haven 2 0% $58,306
34 San Diego City College 1 0% $2,998

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Labor and Industrial Relations program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.