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  • DeadlineStudy Details: MSc 1 year full-time

Course Description

Specialise in HR and learn about managing people in organisations. You’ll gain knowledge of contemporary employment issues in a changing world of work.

Develop your managerial, leadership and interpersonal skills. You’ll graduate prepared for a range of careers in human resource management.

You will learn:

  • how to effectively manage human resources in a variety of organisational contexts
  • practical techniques for effective people management, supported by the latest theory
  • how to use HR-related data and people-focused strategies to attract and retain a healthy workforce
  • the significance and complexities of managing HR in a global context

Key benefits

  • Make the course your own. Our range of optional units will let you specialise or explore more general topics in management and HR.
  • Meet and engage with our network of industry leaders
  • Apply the theory to a business issue in our optional alternative to a traditional dissertation. You'll get practical experience working on a real problem.

We give you the edge

We combine the latest research with many opportunities to apply it. This will help you stand out from the crowd. You'll develop key professional skills and work with our partner organisations on optional projects from day one. Find out more about optional activities.

Our graduates have a great employment record. Most go on to careers in a range of areas, start their own business or begin a PhD. Find out more about how we prepare you for career success.

Entry Requirements

2:1 or above (or international equivalent) undergraduate degree. Your degree can be in any discipline but must include an appropriate level of business, management, organisation or psychology content.

If you are a UK student and completed your undergraduate degree abroad, your qualification must be equivalent to a 2:1 or above.

We may make an offer based on a lower grade if you can provide evidence of your suitability for the degree.

Work experience

In exceptional cases, relevant work experience may be a substitute for the degree requirement. You should have no more than three years’ relevant work experience.

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Fees

For fees and funding options, please visit website to find out more

Student Destinations

We made changes to this course for 2023, including renaming it from ‘MSc in Human Resource Management and Consulting’. Career destination data for the course in its current form won’t be available until late 2024.

81% of our 2022 and 2023 Human Resource Management and Consulting graduates were working or had accepted a job offer within three months of completing their course. 

Module Details

Year 1

Semester 1

Compulsory units

  • Human resource management: theory and practice
  • Leading and managing change
  • Managing people in global organisations

Semester 2

You’ll choose 10 credits of optional units.

Compulsory units

  • Equality, diversity and inclusion at work
  • People analytics
  • Strategic human resource management in action

Optional units

  • Analysing grand challenges in business and society
  • Employment law
  • Independent study
  • Management consulting
  • Negotiation
  • Technology management

Summer

You’ll have the flexibility to choose one of two options.

Optional units

  • Dissertation
  • Practice track

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