Winona State Human Resources (Bachelor's): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Bachelor's in Human Resources Management and Services
- Public university
- Winona, MN
- About 31 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
Winona State human resources graduates earn about what human resources graduates earn nationally, $50,241 in their first year. The typical graduate leaves with $23,250 in federal loans, close to the national median of $26,442. Several Minnesota programs report higher pay.
How it compares
Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The Minnesota and national columns are the medians across all human resources bachelor's programs that report the figure.
Five years out, Winona State graduates earn about the national figure and about the same as the Minnesota median.
Debt and first-year pay at every Minnesota human resources program
Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the Minnesota medians.
Hover over or tap a dot to see the school. Only programs that report both earnings and debt are shown.
What graduates earn over time
Pay rises about 30% between the first and fifth year.
Year 1 and year 5 figures come from different graduating classes, so the growth rate is an estimate.
Does family income change the outcome?
Graduates who received Pell Grants, which go to students from lower-income families, earned more in their first year than other graduates. They also borrowed less. At this program, the outcome does not look worse for students with less money.
Paying back the loans
On a standard 10-year plan, the median debt means a payment of about $246 a month, or 5.9% of a graduate's typical monthly pay in the first year.
The government publishes these as ranges to protect privacy. They were measured in 2018 to 2020, partly during the pandemic pause on federal loan payments, so the forbearance share may be higher than usual.
Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth
64% of graduates (42 of 66) were working in Minnesota one year after graduating. Prices in the parts of Minnesota outside metro areas are about 14% below the national average, so a $50,241 salary here buys what about $58,520 buys in a typical US city.
Careers this field leads to
These are the jobs that the federal crosswalk from fields of study to occupations links to human resources, largest first. Pay is the median across all experience levels.
Human Resources Specialists
$78,760Median pay in Minnesota. 17,240 people work in this job in Minnesota. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 6% from 2025 to 2035, with about 73,700 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree.
Training and Development Specialists
$76,710Median pay in Minnesota. 9,650 people work in this job in Minnesota. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 11% from 2025 to 2035, with about 46,000 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree, plus less than 5 years of related work experience.
Compliance Officers
$85,920Median pay in Minnesota. 6,140 people work in this job in Minnesota. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 4% from 2025 to 2035, with about 32,700 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree.
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors
$64,600Median pay in Minnesota. 4,200 people work in this job in Minnesota. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 3% from 2025 to 2035, with about 27,800 openings a year. Typical education to start: master's degree.
About Winona State
Human Resources ranks 9th of 27 bachelor's programs at Winona State by first-year earnings. The top three are Nursing ($75,313), Materials Engineering ($72,944), and Medical Laboratory Science ($65,883).
Common questions
The median graduate earns $50,241 one year after graduating and $65,075 five years after. The median across human resources bachelor's programs in Minnesota is $52,667.
The median federal loan balance is $23,250, which ranks 2nd lowest of 9 human resources bachelor's programs in Minnesota. That works out to about $246 a month over 10 years.
On the numbers, yes for most students. Debt equals 46% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 53%, and the share of borrowers in default two years into repayment is 10% or less. If the highest possible early salary is the main goal, several Minnesota programs report higher pay, usually with more debt.
Most do. 64% (42 of 66) were working in Minnesota one year after graduating.
About this data
- Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid (grants or loans).
- Earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school. Graduates who went straight to further study are not included.
- Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
- Some schools with several campuses report one combined figure for all of them. We count each of those schools once, and leave them out of Minnesota comparisons when their main campus is in another state.
- Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago. BLS wages are from May 2025.
- School-level numbers like tuition, admission rate, and graduation rate are for the whole school, not the human resources program.
Sources
- U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024
- NCES, CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk, and IPEDS institution directory, 2024