Set yourself up for a fulfilling career in human resource management or employee relations on this comprehensive, professionally accredited master’s run by Loughborough’s HR experts.
Organisations need well skilled HR practitioners to help them manage and look after their people in a way that supports transformation and growth – but also places responsibility and equality front and centre of work and people’s working lives.
Join this MSc to develop your skills to a strategic level, learning about everything from psychology and work design, to employment law, and learning and development.
Learn in the context of real-world issues
Working with Loughborough’s experienced practitioners and researchers, you’ll build sought-after expertise – as you explore pressing contemporary issues from trade unions and strikes, to the gender pay gap.
The degree has a strong ethical thread running through it and is very international in flavour, both in terms of the topics covered, and the students on the programme.
Accreditation by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) adds extra weight to your skills. There’ll also be plenty of networking opportunities with business leaders and HR professionals – and you’ll be supported to develop in areas like critical thinking and analysis, presentations and problem solving, as well.
Tailor your degree to match your career motivations
It’s up to you if you want to shape the programme more towards human resource management (focusing on topics such as recruitment, reward and talent management); or employee relations (looking more at areas like trade union relations and pay negotiations). You can choose modules and your dissertation subject based on where your interests lie.
By the end of the programme, you’ll be in an excellent position for securing HR roles, whether you choose to go into human resource management, employment relations, employee development or other related fields of management.
A good honours degree in either business, management or a cognate social science (sociology, psychology, economics), or a degree in another subject with a substantial business or social science component.
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There are lots of options available to you to fund your master’s programme, from alumni bursaries to school and department scholarships and government loans.
Most large and medium-sized organisations employ HR and personnel specialists, and the Human Resource Management Master’s aims to prepare you for professional roles. You will be well equipped to bring expertise to both specialist HR and more general management roles in both private and public sector organisations.
Whilst studying you will be encouraged to become a student member of the CIPD, which will allow you to attend local branch meetings as well as national events, both of which offer excellent opportunities for networking.
Graduates of this degree have taken their skills into wide-ranging roles including:
Our MSc Human Resource Management is designed to give you an advanced understanding of the social science theory and evidence that underpins people management practice, thereby allowing you to meet the knowledge requirements for Chartered Membership of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD).
Please note that students intending to pursue CIPD accreditation must achieve a minimum of 50% in all modules and assessments.
Semester 1
Compulsory Modules
Semester 2
Compulsory Modules
Summer
Optional Modules (choose one)
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