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    MSc Full-time 1 year

Masters Degree Description

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.

Entry Requirements

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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Fees

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Programme Funding

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.

Student Destinations

Graduates of this degree have taken their skills into wide-ranging roles including:

  • HR Advisor
  • HR Consultant
  • HR Reward Partner
  • HR Specialist
  • HR Officer
  • Strategic Planning Manager
  • HR Business Partner
  • Recruitment Team Leader

Some of the employers they're now working with include:

  • Amazon
  • Ernst & Young
  • KPMG
  • Primark
  • Loughborough University
  • Petronas
  • Royal Bank of Scotland
  • Sina Corporation, China
  • Spa Resources Company Ltd, Hong Kong

Module Details

Semester 1

Compulsory modules

  • Work Design, Organisational Change and Development 
  • Human Resource Management: Theory and Practice 
  • Developing Skills for Business Leadership 
  • Employment Relations

Semester 2

Compulsory modules

  • Learning, Development and Knowledge Management 
  • Strategic Human Resource Management 
  • Research Methods for Human Resource Management 
  • Employment Law

Summer

Optional modules (choose one)

  • Dissertation in Human Resource Management 
  • Consultancy Project

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