Labor and Industrial Relations

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.

For all the 1,620 degrees granted in Labor and Industrial Relations per year, the majority of them are Bachelors degree. Of the 14 students graduating with degrees at the Doctors degree research scholarship level across the US, 64% percent identify as men and 36% percent identify as women. Though students at schools all over the US study Labor and Industrial Relations, New Jersey has the most graduates. The average annual income for a graduate with a bachelor's degree in Labor and Industrial Relations is $40,400.