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Qualification
MA - Master of Arts
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Location
Plymouth University
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
26-SEP-22, 30-JAN-23
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Duration
1 year
Course summary
Equip yourself with the skills and capabilities required for a strategic role in HR on this full-time programme. Through lectures informed by active research and opportunities to gain important work related competencies, you will develop the necessary skills for contemporary HR management, in a business and organisational context.
Key features
- Tailor your time at university to meet your needs by balancing your study around your work and personal commitments. Lectures take place in the afternoons on set days, thereby minimising the impact on everyday work commitments.
- Learn from research-active academics with professional and industry experience.
- Meet the requirements of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's qualification and membership structure.
- Add value to your professional development by combining academic knowledge and rigour, and build important work-related skills and competencies.
- Complement your professional qualification with a masters’ degree in Human Resource Management when you successfully complete the HR masters dissertation with a research methods module
- Join a diverse student body – this course appeals to both recent graduates who wish to enter the HR profession as well as those working in HR who wish to gain professional chartered status and strengthen their employment prospects.
- Deepen your knowledge by studying a range of modules such as the critical role a human resources professional plays within the work environment, how best to lead, manage and develop employees, appropriate HR policies and strategies, maximising the contribution, growth and wellbeing of employees, including an ethical sensibility towards the practice of HRM.
Undertaking a degree in human resource management will deepen your understanding around recruiting, motivating, enhancing and supporting people within the context of the workplace. You will develop a number of skills attractive to potential employers including effective communication and interpersonal skills, time management, research and analytical skills and an awareness and sensitivity to the diversity of people and cultures.
Modules
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£ 15,700per year
Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.
University information

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University League Table
69th
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Campus address
Plymouth University, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, England
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Subject ranking
62nd out of 122 1
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Entry standards
/ Max 209121 57%60th
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Graduate prospects
/ Max 10064.0 64%73rd
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 53.94 79%72nd
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