Human Resource Management MSc

Overview

Human Resource Management at Oxford Brookes University builds your knowledge to excel in international people management. Our Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)-accredited programme equips you with confidence and skill to manage and lead in challenging and ever-changing worlds of work.

Taught by research-active and professionally experienced tutors, you will learn how to unpick complex issues and critique taken-for-granted assumptions, develop alternative perspectives, and design creative pathways to resolutions. Teaching and learning is informed by academic research, hands-on, experiential learning, creative assessment design, organisational visits, and guest-speaker lectures.

Oxford Brookes University facilitates a collaborative approach to learning, reflected in the many social learning spaces in our award-winning buildings. Based in a diverse and vibrant city that blends the historic with the modern, you’ll have a wealth of resources around you.

Careers

By the end of our Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) accredited courses, you’ll be ready to make a difference in the workplace.

If you studied our MSc programme, prepare for an international human resources career in a range of commercial, public sector and not-for-profit organisations. Whatever course you have taken, you will be conferred automatic associate membership of the world-renowned CIPD on completion. You’ll also have a broad and deep range of expertise and insight to take back to the workplace, springboarding your career progression in HR.

Through your programme of learning, you have the possibility to develop long-lasting contacts where you can share your experiences and ask for advice as you progress in your career.

For entry into our MSc course, a minimum of a second class honours degree (2:2) in any academic discipline, or equivalent overseas degree from a recognised institution or equivalent professional or other qualification.