Human Resource Management MSc

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Overview

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MSc

  • MSc Human Resource Management, home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time, 1 year
    • Pound 12000 per year
  • MSc Human Resource Management, home applicant, part time

    • Home Applicant
    • Part time, 2 years
    • Pound 2000 per 30 credit module
  • MSc Human Resource Management, international applicant, full time

    • International Applicant
    • Full time, 1 year
    • Pound 15960 per year
    International applications are closed for 2024

What makes this course different

Top in the country

Our Human Resource Management courses ranked 1st in the country for 8 themes including “Learning Resources” and “Learning Opportunities” (National Student Survey 2023, Results published 10 Aug 2023)

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Highly rated by our students

100% of students surveyed responded positively to questions on themes including “Learning Resources” in the 2023 National Student Survey. (National Student Survey 2023, Results published 10 Aug 2023)

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East London location

East London is the most creative, fastest-growing and demographically diverse region in the country – it’s the best place to be a student for career development.

Accreditation

CIPD accredited

This is an advanced Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) course, enabling you to apply for Chartered CIPD status with the right work experience - to help your career take off.

Course modules

NOTE: Modules are subject to change. For those studying part time courses the modules may vary.

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Your future career

Your future career

Which route will you choose? This HRM Master's qualification will open doors to the profession in the public, private or voluntary sector. All companies and organisations thrive or fail according to the quality of their people and with your MA you will be well placed to make a strategic contribution.

You will have a breadth and depth of knowledge that will make you an attractive proposition to employers, able to combine a theoretical and practical approach to make a positive difference.

You might choose to go down the generalist path, where your skills and talents will be put to use across the range of HRM disciplines. Or instead you might choose to focus on a specific area. 

You could, for example focus on reward - ensuring the organisations retain the best staff - or on recruitment, making sure that companies attract and bring on board the best people for the job. This could be in-house or for a recruitment consultancy.

You could also focus on training and development, making sure that staff have the right skills and qualities to make a telling contribution to any company.

Good HRM staff are in demand and you might decide to go freelance or set up your own company. This qualification will increase your options significantly.

Explore the different career options you can pursue with this degree and see the median salaries of the sector on our Career Coach portal.

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I am now a HR Advisor for a global IT company. I am responsible for the EMEA region, which has staff in 23 countries."
Estelle Jochel

MSc Human Resource Management

How we support your career ambitions

We offer dedicated careers support, and further opportunities to thrive, such as volunteering and industry networking. Our courses are created in collaboration with employers and industry to ensure they accurately reflect the real-life practices of your future career and provide you with the essential skills needed. You can focus on building interpersonal skills through group work and benefit from our investment in the latest cutting-edge technologies and facilities.

Career Zone

Our dedicated and award-winning team provide you with careers and employability resources, including:

  • Online jobs board for internships, placements, graduate opportunities, flexible part-time work.
  • Mentoring programmes for insight with industry experts 
  • 1-2-1 career coaching services 
  • Careers workshops and employer events 
  • Learning pathways to gain new skills and industry insight

Mental Wealth programme

Our Professional Fitness and Mental Wealth programme which issues you with a Careers Passport to track the skills you’ve mastered. Some of these are externally validated by corporations like Amazon and Microsoft.

Our Mental Wealth programme

We are careers first

Our teaching methods and geographical location put us right up top

  • Enterprise and entrepreneurship support 
  • We are ranked 6th for graduate start-ups 
  • Networking and visits to leading organisations 
  • Support in starting a new business, freelancing and self-employment 
  • London on our doorstep

What you'll learn

On this course you will learn the key components of the HRM practitioner's role, and you should come with an open mind and a willingness to engage with the very wide variety of content you’ll be presented with. 

The areas you will cover include managing people, recruitment, employment law, leadership and employee relations. You will also study management, strategy and training and development.

The course has been carefully designed to mirror the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's learning outcomes, so you can be sure that you will be taught the latest thinking.

You will also produce a dissertation on a relevant topic of your choice, ensuring this has a strong strategic as well as a theoretical rationale. 

As a pre-requisite, the topic you choose must be grounded within a company or organisation.  Recent dissertation topics have included the female talent pipeline in the mobile phone industry and assessing the readiness for change in a large marketing company.

We consistently review and develop our courses and modules to ensure they are up-to-date with sector and industry graduate skills demands. Course structure, modules and options are subject to change.

How you'll learn

This is a practical course, so you will take part in a large number of behavioural development and reflective exercises. This will involve weekend workshops on-campus, where you’ll be expected to put into practice some of the skills you need as an HR professional.

A core element of the HR professional role is in developing leadership and managerial skills in others - and on this course you will have the chance to hone your own managerial skills, style and qualities. You will undertake leadership development exercises, including Myers-Briggs Type Indicator tests.

As well as the many practical and scenario-based exercises, you will also be taught via lectures and seminars and you’ll be expected to conduct a great deal of independent study and research.

You will be taught by active researchers, who bring their insights to bear on the course. Research interests of our staff include diversity, gender and access to senior management positions, employment law and changes in public and private sector management.

The course leader is vice-chair of the 2,500-strong East London branch of the CIPD. All branch meetings are held at the University of East London, and you will benefit from this regular networking opportunity with senior HR professionals, who also provide guest speakers.

How you will be assessed

We use a range of assessment methods for each module. These may include group presentations, individual written essays, role play and case study report evaluation, unseen examinations and independent research reports.

Campus and facilities

University Square Stratford

Who teaches this course

This course is delivered by the Royal Docks School of Business and Law

The teaching team includes qualified academics, practitioners and industry experts as guest speakers. Full details of the academics will be provided in the student handbook and module guides.