MSc Human Resource Management

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.

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

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. 

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