Affordable online human resources bachelor’s degrees (2026)

Fee units, residency eligibility, and placement conditions come from each school’s published terms:

Trine University: Credits are semester credits. This is a business administration degree with a human resource management major. The school publishes $299 per credit but does not list a complete mandatory-fee schedule, so ask for its fee list. Confirm the current rate and remaining courses before applying.

Louisiana State University in Shreveport: Credits are semester credits. This is a management degree with a 12-credit HR concentration, not a standalone HR major. The stated per-credit amount and the separately published whole-program estimate do not reconcile exactly, so treat $306 per credit as a planning figure rather than a final bill. Proctoring and course-specific charges may apply. The published transfer ceiling is 75% of the 120-credit degree (90 credits), and two-year or community-college transfers have a 60-credit sub-cap. At least 30 of the final 40 term hours must be earned from LSUS. The school evaluates each transfer credit itself. The published program total and the maximum-transfer estimate do not reconcile exactly with the $306-per-credit rate. Required fees are only partly published, so ask the school for its fee list.

Lamar University: Credits are semester credits. The $314 per credit rate includes university fees. Every applicant also pays a one-time $25 application fee. The school says fees can change without notice, and it does not list every program-specific charge, so ask for its fee list. You can transfer in up to 90 credits, subject to evaluation.

Metropolitan State University: Credits are semester credits. Standard course fees add $42.30 per credit. The tuition page lists a $20 graduation fee, which applies at degree completion; the same list labels only the graduate and doctoral application fees, so no undergraduate application fee is published there. Additional course and lab fees vary and are subject to change, and the complete total is unknown — ask for the school's fee list.

CUNY School of Professional Studies: Credits are semester credits. This is a Bachelor of Arts in Human Relations, not an HR management major. It draws on psychology, sociology, business and communications and prepares students for people-facing and HR-adjacent roles, so compare its coursework with an HR major before choosing it on price. All courses are offered fully online and asynchronously (the program states this from Spring 2022). The catalog requires at least 120 credits. Tuition for fully online programs is $305 per credit for New York State residents, or $3,465 per semester when you take 12 or more credits, and $350 per credit for students who are not New York State residents. Students enrolled in a fully online program before January 2023 keep the New York State rate; students who first enroll or are readmitted from January 2023 onward pay the non-resident online rate, which the table applies to every state outside New York. Published fees are billed per term or once rather than per credit: a $70 application fee once, $15 CUNY Consolidated Services per session, $125 technology ($62.50 part time) per term, a $75 infrastructure fee per term for online degree programs, $23.55 student activity and $1.45 student senate fees in fall and spring. A materials fee varies by course. The catalog requires at least 15 academic credits completed at CUNY SPS while matriculated, and the number of required College Option credits (6-12) depends on how many credits you transfer. No maximum transfer ceiling is published.

Western Illinois University: Credits are semester credits. Human Resource Management is an option inside the Bachelor of Business in Business Administration, not a separate degree. WIU lists Business Administration with the Human Resource Management option among its online bachelor's programs, and the catalog lists the degree as offered at Macomb and Online. The catalog states that 120 semester hours is the minimum for the baccalaureate degree. Tuition is $350.10 per credit hour for US students under Plan B, the rate for students who first enroll in Fall 2026, Spring 2027 or Summer 2027. International students pay $612.68 and military personnel with tuition-assistance vouchers $250.00; those are eligibility rates. Mandatory general student fees for Macomb, Quad Cities and online classes are $101.56 per credit hour in fall and spring. Summer terms are billed $64.98 per credit hour, so the fee column is a fall/spring figure. No mandatory fee schedule for the degree beyond the general student fees was found and no transfer ceiling is published, so ask the school for both before you compare it with another college.

Southern New Hampshire University: Credits are semester credits. The published schedule lists a $100 graduation conferral fee. Course materials and other program costs are not in that figure. The maximum advertised transfer allowance is 90 credits.

American Public University: Credits are semester credits. The published standard $360 rate is shown before the automatically applied 10% Opportunity Grant. Other military, veteran and first-responder discounts have their own eligibility. The published bachelor's graduation charge is $350 and undergraduate admission is $0. Required special and course charges are not fully listed, so ask the school for its fee list.

Northwest Missouri State University: Credits are semester credits. The school adds a $39 required course fee and lists a $20.50 remote-proctoring assessment fee. Both are billed per course or assessment rather than per credit, so what you owe depends on your degree plan. Transfer allowance is up to 81 hours.

Colorado State University Global: Credits are semester credits. The school publishes $0 student fees. The standard $25 application charge is included; an individual fee-waiver code is not assumed. Books and supplies are not in the per-credit rate. The published transfer ceiling is up to 90 total credits, of which up to 64 may come from community colleges and up to 60 from non-traditional sources such as credit-by-exam or prior learning; program requirements vary.