C04227v1 Master of Business in Human Resource Management

Overview

The Master of Business in Human Resource Management provides students with the in-depth knowledge and skills necessary to contribute at a senior level to their organisation's human resources and industrial relations functions.

The course is designed primarily for individuals who are currently employed, or show the potential for employment, at senior policy making levels in the fields of human resource management, industrial relations, occupational health and affirmative action.

Course aims

The Master of Business in Human Resource Management aims to provide leading-edge conceptual and practical understandings of human resource management in complex and unfamiliar workplace sitautions in order to facilitate management decision making.

Career options

Career options include positions in change management and general management, human resources, and organisational training and development.

Articulation

Additional admission requirements

Applicants require one of the following:

• a cognate degree from a UTS-recognised university or other tertiary education institution
• a degree from a UTS-recognised university or other tertiary education institution and a minimum of two years' relevant work experience
• a relevant Graduate Diploma from UTS or a UTS-recognised tertiary education institution, or
• a relevant Graduate Certificate from UTS or a UTS-recognised tertiary education institution with at least a Credit average.

Additional recognition of prior learning

Students may be granted a maximum of eight subjects exemptions, of which four core subjects may be approved from prior undergraduate study.

Course duration and attendance

The Master of Business in Human Resource Management may be completed in three years of part-time study, or one-and-a-half years of full-time study.

Course structure

The Master of Business in Human Resource Management totals 72 credit points and consists of a combination of core and elective subjects.

Course completion requirements

Course program

The course program is shown below.

Students who wish to focus on industrial relations/industrial law may substitute the business elective with an elective from the Faculty of Law, subject to approval by the course coordinator.

Professional recognition

Australian Human Resources Institute

Students completing this degree are eligible to apply to the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) for the Professional Member (MAHRI) status and/or advancement to a higher level of membership for those who have appropriate work experience.

Other information

Further information is available from the Graduate School of Business on: