Human Resource Management BSc (Hons)

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Degree

UCAS code: N605112 UCAS points

BSc (Hons) Human Resource Management, home applicant, full time

  • Home Applicant
  • Full time, 3/4 years
  • Pound 9250 per year

BSc (Hons) Human Resource Management, international applicant, full time

  • International Applicant
  • Full time, 3/4 years
  • Pound 14820 per year

Degree

UCAS code: N602112 UCAS points

BSc (Hons) Human Resource Management, home applicant, full time

  • Home Applicant
  • Full time, 3/4 years
  • Pound 9250 per year

BSc (Hons) Human Resource Management, home applicant, part time

  • Home Applicant
  • Part time
  • pro-rata full time fee

BSc (Hons) Human Resource Management, international applicant, full time

  • International Applicant
  • Full time, 3/4 years
  • TBC per year

Degree with foundation year

UCAS code: N60364 UCAS points

BSc (Hons) Human Resource Management, home applicant, full time

  • Home Applicant
  • Full time, 4/5 years
  • Pound 9250 per year

BSc (Hons) Human Resource Management, international applicant, full time

  • International Applicant
  • Full time, 4/5 years
  • TBC per year

What makes this course different

Highly rated by our students

93% of students surveyed on this course responded positively to questions on “Learning Resources” in the 2024 National Student Survey. (National Student Survey 2024, Results published 10 July 2024)

Read the full NSS survey results

HR rooted in Business Management

The degree teaches you the practical principles of HR, and gives you a broader understanding of business - from marketing to economics - to make you a more rounded and versatile employee.

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

The BSc Human Resource Management is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, ensuring you learn the professional skills that employers really need.

Course modules

This human resource management degree course covers a wide range of topics, rooting fundamental HR principles in a contemporary business context. You'll learn about the core functions of a business alongside specific HR themes such as recruitment, professional development, ethics, employee relations, and employment law. The degree will provide you with a thorough understanding of human resource management while allowing you to choose from a range of options. You'll explore specialisms in different areas such as International HRM and study in a highly practical way through the work placement module – HRM Work-Based Reflective Practice. In the first year, you'll study some general business management topics (fundamentals of economics and business accounting, foundation in marketing, business statistics, and data analysis) and receive an introduction to the basics of people management. This will help you understand the role of HR within the larger function of a business, connecting staff management to the successful running of an organisation.

In the second year, you will further develop your understanding of HR in a practical setting. You'll learn about coordinating the HR function within a business as well as rewarding and incentivising staff, employment law, resourcing and talent management, and employment law for HR professionals. There are also several optional modules to choose from in the second year. You can either opt for learning and development or International HRM or HRM work-based reflective practice.

In the final year of your HRM degree, you will look at strategic human resource management and leadership in organisations, and business ethics, and develop extra skills in business research. These will be fantastic for your employability prospects and career development in HR. You will study employee engagement, employee relations, and human resource information systems. You will undertake an applied project in HR. These HRM-tailored modules will give you the knowledge that is needed in the global world of work.

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

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Your future career

We offer dedicated careers support, and further opportunities to thrive, such as volunteering and industry networking. Our human resource management course is created in collaboration with employers and industry to ensure it accurately reflects the real-life practices of your future career and provides 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.
There’s a fantastic opportunity to travel abroad, where you'll work on a social enterprise project with fellow students from other countries. In previous years, our students have travelled to Bahrain, China, the United States, and Thailand, to name a few.

Industry links

Our course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development to ensure your skills will be relevant and recognised by employers. Our courses offer hands-on experience, leveraging our state-of-the-art facilities. You will network with professionals, learn from guest speakers, and have the chance to take a work placement module. These links will ensure you graduate with the diverse skills needed to be an HR professional.

Graduate employers

Our human resource management alumni have taken on a variety of HR roles in organisations like Acas, East London NHS, Hall Aitken, and Tower Hamlets Council.

Job roles

Our alumni currently work in roles such as human resource and organisational development manager, HR business partner and payroll administrator, to name a few. With a human resource management degree, you could become a recruiter, trainer, employee relations advisor, or even move into management consultancy or occupational psychology, which we offer as a degree at UEL.

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

Further study

You could further develop in your HR career by studying for an

These masters degrees will enable you to transition into leadership roles or become an HR specialist.

How we support your career ambitions

We offer dedicated career 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

This digital platform provides you with careers and employability resources, including: 

  • 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:

  • Work-based projects
  • Networking and visits to leading organisations
  • Support in starting a new business
  • London on our doorstep

How you'll learn

We use a range of teaching methods to help you develop new skills and techniques as well as the specialist HR knowledge you'll need in your career. We care about your employability, so our staff provide exceptional support throughout your degree, equipping you with the communication and interpersonal skills you need to be an HR professional.

There’s a fantastic opportunity to travel abroad, where you'll work on a social enterprise project with fellow students from other countries. In previous years, our students have travelled to Bahrain, China, the United States, and Thailand, to name a few.

You'll develop key business and strategic HR skills in every module you take and we'll also support you with the latest thinking from our business research centres.

Guided independent study

When not attending timetabled lectures or workshops, you will be expected to continue learning independently through self-study. This will typically involve skills development through online study, reading journal articles and books, working on individual and group projects and preparing coursework assignments and presentations. 

Your independent learning is supported by a range of excellent facilities including online resources, and specialist facilities, such as edit suites, the library, the full Microsoft Office software, including MS Teams, and Moodle: our Virtual Learning Environment.

Academic support

Our academic support team provides help in a range of areas - including learning and disability support.

Dedicated personal tutor

When you arrive, we'll introduce you to your personal tutor. This is the member of the academic course team who will provide academic guidance, be a support throughout your time at UEL and who will show you how to make the best use of all the help and resources that we offer.

Workload

Here are some of the ways you'll learn throughout the course: 

  • Lectures, seminars, tutorials, and workshops. 
  • Role-plays: e.g. playing the role of employer/trade union in a mock negotiation. This may be filmed to enable you to reflect and receive feedback. This practical work will prepare you for real-life HR negotiations.
  • Practical tasks: e.g. designing, delivering, and evaluating some training, or writing a job description and person specification. Independent study, supported by our specialist business library and a selection of digital materials, handbooks, notes, and other resources.
  • Working in a team to share ideas and insights. Guest speakers representing a cross-section of business and HR expertise will share their experience in the field of human resource management.

Your timetable

Your individualised timetable is normally available within 48 hours of enrolment. Whilst we make every effort to ensure timetables are as student-friendly as possible, scheduled teaching can take place on any day of the week between 9.00am and 6.00pm. For undergraduate students, Wednesday afternoons are normally reserved for sports and cultural activities, but there may be occasions when this is not possible. Timetables for part-time students will depend on the modules selected.

Class sizes

The size of classes can vary depending on the nature of the course, module and activity. This can range from large groups in a lecture theatre setting, to smaller groups taking part in seminars and collaborative work.

How you'll be assessed

Assessment will be based on practical and vocational skills as well as theoretical knowledge. As a result, you will be assessed through a variety of methods, ensuring different aspects of your skill set are acknowledged and rewarded – these methods include; coursework, essays, examinations, industry-related practice, presentations, project work, practical reports, portfolio development, and group work.

The variety of assessment techniques also ensures you are exposed to different ways of working that will be useful in your future career; keeping a portfolio and working on projects are natural ways of working in the industry that will be encouraged during your studies.

  • Foundation year: 100% coursework

Campus and facilities

University Square Stratford

Who teaches this course

This course is delivered by 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.

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