Human Resource Management
MA or MSc or PGDip
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Start dates: September 2024 / September 2025
Full time: MSc 12 Months for international students or 12 or 24 Months for home students (on campus)
Part time: MA 24 Months; PG Dip 18 or 30 Months with apprenticeship route (blended learning)
Location: Blended learning, Headington
Department(s): Oxford Brookes Business School
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.
Why Oxford Brookes University?
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Pedagogic Excellence
We've designed this course based on innovative approaches to teaching and learning, including experiential learning. Be ready to take part in engaging activities including a mock tribunal, negotiation exercises, and a pilot research project
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Thought Leadership
Teaching draws on current research from the University's centres of excellence including our International Centre for Coaching and Mentoring, Centre for Diversity, and Centre for Business, Society and Global Challenges.
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Flexible Learning
Study in person over 1 or 2 years (MSc) or 2 years, blended (online and in person) (MA/PGDip)
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Industry Networking
You'll hear guest speakers and participate in an annual HR conference showcasing your own research. You'll meet previous graduates and engage with local businesses to expand your professional networks.
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Supportive Learning
You’ll have a personal academic adviser and programme team to support you throughout. Assessment is via coursework rather than exams, allowing you to produce your best work and providing for neurodivergent students.
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Accreditation(s)
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. There is a compulsory student joining fee and annual fee. Please see the 'Additional costs' section for more information.
Course details
Study modules
For the PGDip award, you will complete your studies with a shorter version of the Critical Skills Investigation module which will prepare you for conducting research projects in your own workplace. If you want to complete your own research project, then the route would be a longer version of Critical Investigation Skills and the Research Project (full MA).
Please note: As our courses are reviewed regularly as part of our quality assurance framework, the modules you can choose from may vary from those shown here. The structure of the course may also mean some modules are not available to 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.
Student profiles
Related courses
Entry requirements
Specific entry requirements
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.
Postgraduate Diploma or full MA programme:
2:2 honours degree or a recognised equivalent from an approved institution or a professional qualification from an approved and recognised professional body that is regarded as equivalent. Plus, either a minimum of one year of relevant work experience or currently employed in a role with opportunities to put new learning into practice.
Entry will also be subject to two satisfactory references (one of these must be a professional reference).
We offer an PGDip apprenticeship route (30 months) for home students currently working in HR.
We also offer a ‘fast track’ MA option for a full MA if you already have an equivalent PG Diploma from another institution.
Please also see the University's general entry requirements.
Selection process
Exceptionally, applicants who can show that they have qualifications, experience or both, that demonstrate that they have knowledge and capabilities equivalent to those possessed by holders of qualifications listed above, may be admitted with dispensation from the requirement to possess those qualifications. To this end, a minimum of three years relevant advisory, supervisory or management employment experience may be acceptable.
To process your award quickly, please provide copies of your certificates and references when you apply.
English language requirements
If English is not your first language you will need to have the following level of English language competency:
- If English is not your first language you will need to have an English language competency of a minimum 6.0 (with a minimum of 6.0 in reading and writing and 5.5 in listening and speaking).
- If you have completed your undergraduate degree in the UK (at least one full year of study) you will automatically meet our English language requirements.
Please also see the University's standard English language requirements.
Pathways courses for international and EU students
We offer a range of courses to help you meet the entry requirements for your postgraduate course and also familiarise you with university life in the UK.
Take a Pre-Master's course to develop your subject knowledge, study skills and academic language level in preparation for your master's course.
If you need to improve your English language, we offer pre-sessional English language courses to help you meet the English language requirements of your chosen master’s course.
English requirements for visas
If you need a student visa to enter the UK you will need to meet the UK Visas and Immigration minimum language requirements as well as the University's requirements. Find out more about English language requirements.
International applications
The MA and Postgraduate Diploma routes are not open to international applications for visa purposes.
The MSc does accept international applications. We also welcome applications from international students for our Fast Track programme.
Credit transfer
Terms and Conditions of Enrolment
When you accept our offer, you agree to the Terms and Conditions of Enrolment. You should therefore read those conditions before accepting the offer.
International qualifications and equivalences
How to apply
Application process
Tuition fees
Questions about fees?
Contact Student Finance on:
Tuition fees
Fees quoted are the full price of the course.
The following factors will be taken into account by the University when it is setting the annual fees: inflationary measures such as the retail price indices, projected increases in University costs, changes in the level of funding received from Government sources, admissions statistics and access considerations including the availability of student support.
How and when to pay
Tuition fee instalments for the semester are due by the Monday of week 1 of each semester. Students are not liable for full fees for that semester if they leave before week 4. If the leaving date is after week 4, full fees for the semester are payable.
- For information on payment methods please see our Make a Payment page.
- For information about refunds please visit our Refund policy page
Additional costs
Please be aware that some courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees. Specific additional costs for this course are detailed below.
Compulsory costs
Additional costs | Amount (£) |
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You will need to be a student member of the CIPD while taking the programme for there is a one-off joining fee. | £40 |
The CIPD annual membership is payable in two installments throughout the year. Please see CIPD Student Member fees for details. | £218 |
Optional costs
Additional costs | Amount (£) |
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It’s your responsibility to cover print / binding costs where coursework submission is required. Please note that a lot of the coursework is now submitted online. |
From £30 |
Accommodation fees in Brookes Letting (most do not include bills) |
£94-265 per week |
Accommodation fees in university halls (bills included, excluding laundry costs) |
£122-180 per week |
Graduation costs include tickets, gowning and photography. Gowns are not compulsory but typically students do hire robes, starting at £41. |
Typically £0-200 |
Students are responsible for their own travel to and from university for classes. BrookesBus travel is subsidised for full-time undergraduate students that are on a course with a fee of £9,250 or more, or living in an Oxford Brookes hall of residence. There is an administration fee for the production of a BrookesKey. |
From £10 |
Funding your studies
Financial support and scholarships
Featured funding opportunities available for this course.
All financial support and scholarships
Programme changes:
On rare occasions we may need to make changes to our course programmes after they have been
published on the website. For more information, please visit our
changes to programmes page.