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.
| A major in Labor and Industrial Relations is highly relevant for the following careers. National averages for wages in each career is provided. |
- Business Teachers, Postsecondary - $77,340
- Compensation and Benefits Managers - $93,410
- Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists - $57,060
- Employment Interviewers
- Human Resources Managers, All Other
- Human Resources, Training, and Labor Relations Specialists, All Other
- Personnel Recruiters
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Top 21
U.S.
Colleges with the
highest percentage
of
Labor and Industrial Relations among the 2007-2008
graduating class.
| | Cornell University
Ithaca, NY | 220
(6.4%) |  |  | |
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| | Cleveland State University
Cleveland, OH | 68
(4.0%) |  |  | |
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| | University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras Campus
Rio Piedras, PR | 82
(3.4%) |  |  | |
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| | Seton Hall University
South Orange, NJ | 29
(2.8%) | |  | |
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| | University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA | 112
(2.5%) | |  | |
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| | West Virginia University Institute of Technology
Montgomery, WV | 5
(2.4%) | | | |
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| | Le Moyne College
Syracuse, NY | 9
(1.7%) |  | | |
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| | Rider University
Lawrenceville, NJ | 15
(1.7%) | | | |
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| | SUNY College at Old Westbury
Old Westbury, NY | 10
(1.6%) | | | |
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| | Rutgers University-New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ | 84
(1.5%) | | | |
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Degrees awarded represents the number of bachelor's degrees awarded among the 2007-2008 graduating class.