Department of Management & Marketing | MSc Human Resource Management
12 monthsProgramme duration
Sep-2024Starting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Business and Management Studies
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
MSc Human Resource Management at Durham University
The MSc in Human Resource Management focuses on the importance of managing people in the workplace and prepares you for a rewarding career in this vital business function.
Our MSc in Human Resource Management focuses on the importance of managing people in the workplace and explores how this function of management makes a major contribution to business success.
This one-year full-time course provides you with the skills and knowledge to achieve a successful career in HR and does not require you to have any background experience in business or in management.
As well as a core module in HR Management, you will also cover a wide range of contemporary commercial subjects. These include Business Strategy, Business Economics and Accounting, Individual Behaviour in an Organisation, Employee Relations and Themes in Work and Society.
You will also take optional modules and at the end of the course, you will complete a dissertation, which can be a work placement-based business project or a research-led piece of writing.
The course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD), which is the largest professional HR and Learning organisation in the world with some 140,000 members, and on successful completion you will become eligible for the award of the organisation’s Advanced Diploma in Human Resource Management.
As a student on the course you will join the University’s renowned Business School. Durham University Business School is one of an elite group of UK institutions to have been accredited by all three major business accreditation bodies, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the Association of MBAs and the European Quality Improvement System.
Our postgraduate programmes with a focus on employability fully equip you with the skills and industry insight to embark on a successful and rewarding business career.
The knowledge and understanding you develop reflect the Department’s values of sustainability, wellbeing and equality of opportunity across the globe.
You gain a combination of analytical and practical skills that employers value, such as independent thinking and problem-solving, and are able to enhance your people skills that are essential in business and much sought after by employers.
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Programme overview
Main Subject
Business and Management Studies
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
MSc Human Resource Management at Durham University
The MSc in Human Resource Management focuses on the importance of managing people in the workplace and prepares you for a rewarding career in this vital business function.
Our MSc in Human Resource Management focuses on the importance of managing people in the workplace and explores how this function of management makes a major contribution to business success.
This one-year full-time course provides you with the skills and knowledge to achieve a successful career in HR and does not require you to have any background experience in business or in management.
As well as a core module in HR Management, you will also cover a wide range of contemporary commercial subjects. These include Business Strategy, Business Economics and Accounting, Individual Behaviour in an Organisation, Employee Relations and Themes in Work and Society.
You will also take optional modules and at the end of the course, you will complete a dissertation, which can be a work placement-based business project or a research-led piece of writing.
The course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD), which is the largest professional HR and Learning organisation in the world with some 140,000 members, and on successful completion you will become eligible for the award of the organisation’s Advanced Diploma in Human Resource Management.
As a student on the course you will join the University’s renowned Business School. Durham University Business School is one of an elite group of UK institutions to have been accredited by all three major business accreditation bodies, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the Association of MBAs and the European Quality Improvement System.
Our postgraduate programmes with a focus on employability fully equip you with the skills and industry insight to embark on a successful and rewarding business career.
The knowledge and understanding you develop reflect the Department’s values of sustainability, wellbeing and equality of opportunity across the globe.
You gain a combination of analytical and practical skills that employers value, such as independent thinking and problem-solving, and are able to enhance your people skills that are essential in business and much sought after by employers.
Durham University: Inspiring the Extraordinary
We believe that inspiring our people to do outstanding things at Durham enables Durham people to do outstanding things in the world.
A globally outstanding centre of teaching and research excellence, a collegiate community of extraordinary people, a unique and historic setting - Durham is a university like no other!
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