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sustainable-energy-systems-management-msc sustainable-energy-systems-management-pgdip systemic-practice-family-therapy-msc systemic-practice-family-therapy-pgcert systemic-practice-family-therapy-pgdip systemic-psychotherapy-msc teaching-english-speakers-other-languages-applied-linguistics-msc translation-ma violence-terrorism-security-ma violence-terrorism-security-pgdip youth-justice-msc youth-justice-pgdip zero-carbon-engineering-pgcert Share Facebook Linkedin Email Undergraduate 2025 MSc | Postgraduate Taught Human Resource Management Apply now Register Interest Entry year Academic Year 2026/27 Entry requirements 2.2 Attendance 1 year (Full-time) 2 years (Part-time) Places available OPEN (Full Time) OPEN (Part Time) Overview Course content Modules Entry requirements Careers Fees and funding Apply The MSc Human Resource Management (HRM) programme aims to develop your expertise in HRM and allows you to gain professional accreditation from the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD). Taught by leading researchers and practitioners, the MSc HRM programme covers current trends, opportunities, and challenges in global HRM. You'll engage with HR leaders, apply real-world learning, and develop practical HR skills. Whether you are a HR professional or want to enter the HR field, the MSc Human Resource Management will help prepare you for your next career move. Accredited to the advanced level by the CIPD, this master's programme ensures that you will graduate with the essential skills for a successful HR career.
Key Program Features
Human Resource Management highlights
Professional Accreditations
The programme is fully accredited to the advanced level by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). The programme provides the necessary knowledge and understanding to be awarded professional membership of the CIPD at Associate level. *Professional membership fees to CIPD are an optional and additional cost on top of the programme fees (see below).
Career Development
The MSc HRM will provide you with the opportunity to participate in employability sessions delivered by careers advisors and leading HR professionals in the field. These sessions will enable you to consider your career goals, plan for how to achieve them, and network with key contacts working in HR.
World Class Facilities
Queen’s Business School (QBS) has recently undergone an innovative expansion that establishes a benchmark of global excellence for one of the top business schools in the UK and Ireland. A stunning new 6,000 square metre building, adjacent to the listed red-brick Riddel Hall has been designed with the latest digital infrastructure for media lecture capture, TED Talk provision and collaborative breakout sessions. Fostering an enhanced social and educational experience the new state-of-the-art QBS venue boasts a 250-seat tiered educational space; 120-seat Harvard style lecture theatre; 150-seat computer laboratory; breakout study spaces; FinTrU Trading Room; a café, and a Business Engagement and Employability Hub.
Student Experience
Students will have the opportunity to participate in our HR Future Insights Series which seeks to enhance students' learning experience by providing them with exposure to senior professionals in human resource management and related business communities. This series focuses on current and future trends and issues in HR and may include, for example, sessions on HR analytics, talent management, the future of work, and conflict management and negotiation. The MSc HRM programme is taught in a blended learning environment incorporating both online and face-to-face teaching. You will be based at Queen's Business School Student Hub, which has dedicated facilities and resources for postgraduate students, Read about student experiences at Queen's Business School, from local, national and international perspectives via the Student Experiences Blog.
Career Opportunities
Career Development
The MSc HRM will provide you with the opportunity to participate in employability sessions delivered by careers advisors and leading HR professionals in the field. These sessions will enable you to consider your career goals, plan for how to achieve them, and network with key contacts working in HR.
World Class Facilities
Queen’s Business School (QBS) has recently undergone an innovative expansion that establishes a benchmark of global excellence for one of the top business schools in the UK and Ireland. A stunning new 6,000 square metre building, adjacent to the listed red-brick Riddel Hall has been designed with the latest digital infrastructure for media lecture capture, TED Talk provision and collaborative breakout sessions. Fostering an enhanced social and educational experience the new state-of-the-art QBS venue boasts a 250-seat tiered educational space; 120-seat Harvard style lecture theatre; 150-seat computer laboratory; breakout study spaces; FinTrU Trading Room; a café, and a Business Engagement and Employability Hub.
Student Experience
Students will have the opportunity to participate in our HR Future Insights Series which seeks to enhance students' learning experience by providing them with exposure to senior professionals in human resource management and related business communities. This series focuses on current and future trends and issues in HR and may include, for example, sessions on HR analytics, talent management, the future of work, and conflict management and negotiation. The MSc HRM programme is taught in a blended learning environment incorporating both online and face-to-face teaching. You will be based at Queen's Business School Student Hub, which has dedicated facilities and resources for postgraduate students, Read about student experiences at Queen's Business School, from local, national and international perspectives via the Student Experiences Blog.
https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/queens-business-school/student-opportunities/student-experiences-blog/
The MSc in Human Resource Management course was both an exciting and challenging year. The course content is directly applicable to HR practice and is recognised by employers as a profoundly specialist insight into the dynamics of people management. Engaging seminars, coupled with outstanding teaching, has made this course a fantastic place to start my HR career pathway. Callum Montgomery
Program Curriculum
Course Structure
This course is offered on both a full-time (1 year) and part-time (2 years) basis. Part-time students typically complete two modules per semester. Full-time students typically complete four modules per semester. The programme consists of the following eight taught modules (each worth 15 CATS) and a capstone module (worth 60 CATS). Currently, each 15-CAT module has a 2 hour class timetabled each week for 10 weeks each semester.
Semester One
People Strategy (Part time Year 1): Explores the latest strategic approaches and techniques HR professionals are taking in order to align specific people management practices with the business strategy. Managing Employment Relations (Part time Year 1): Evaluates wider empirical trends in employment relations approaches, evaluates the basis of conflict in organisations and explores the rights and obligations imposed by employment law. Managing Employee Performance, Wellbeing, and Rewards (Part time Year 2): Examines contrasting models and methods and assesses how these are applied in different business environments. HRM Analytics (Part time Year 2): Uses leading software tools to carry out HR analytics, including descriptive, visual, and prescriptive analytics to understand the wider organisational implications for people management approaches.
Semester Three
Summer Semester Capstone Module: Responsible People Management (Part time Year 2) * *The 60 CATS Capstone module, which has been implemented across MSc programmes in Queen’s Business School, will include a taught element (24 hours taught across 4 weeks in Semester 3), which prepares students for and leads to an independent project over July-September.
Semester Two
Resourcing and Talent Management (Part time Year 1): Explores organisational responses to changing labour markets, and examines how organisations acquire and retain the necessary skills, attitudes and experience to meet business objectives. Leading Organisational Change (Part time Year 1): Provides learners with the knowledge and understanding about why and how organisations change, the impact of change on people within the organisation, and the role of HRM in leading and building capabilities for change. Optional Module (Students choose one) HRM and Negotiations - It is anticipated that “HRM and Negotiations” will be relevant for students who already have work experience in HRM and those who aim to take a role with a specific focus on employment relations. At the same time, the module will be relevant for all students who envision to have line management. Students will benefit from a practical hands-on approach to HRM and Negotiations that involves role play and mock negotiations to simulate and practice conflict resolution. or Managing People in Global Organisations - The module will give students differentiated insights that will be relevant in tailoring and applying HR strategy talent management, training and development, performance management, as well as reward systems in different national contexts and regulatory systems. It will also provide students with tools to understand and navigate cross-cultural similarities and differences. Lasty, it will help students to prepare for own expatriate assignments in countries other than their own by enabling students to build a global mindset. (Part time Year 2) Strategic Learning, Training, and Development (Part time Year 2): Evaluates the existing context and practice relating to the design and undertaking of training and development initiatives within firms.
People teaching you Dr Gráinne Kelly Programme Director Queen's Business School Email: grainne.kelly@qub.ac.uk
Admission Requirements
How to Apply
Apply using our online Queen's Portal and follow the step-by-step instructions on how to apply .
Terms and Conditions
The terms and conditions that apply when you accept an offer of a place at the University on a taught programme of study. Queen's University Belfast Terms and Conditions .
Tuition & Financial Information
Tuition Fee
GBP 15,200/year (international)
Tuition Fees
| Northern Ireland (NI) 1 | £8,950 |
| Republic of Ireland (ROI) 2 | £8,950 |
| England, Scotland or Wales (GB) 1 | £10,400 |
| EU Other 3 | £26,500 (£6,000 discount, see T&Cs link below) |
| International | £26,500 (£6,000 discount, see T&Cs link below) |
£6,000 Scholarship available for 2026 entry. Click this link to view the Terms and Conditions.
1 EU citizens in the EU Settlement Scheme, with settled status, will be charged the NI or GB tuition fee based on where they are ordinarily resident. Students who are ROI nationals resident in GB will be charged the GB fee.
2 EU students who are ROI nationals resident in ROI are eligible for NI tuition fees.
3 EU Other students (excludes Republic of Ireland nationals living in GB, NI or ROI) are charged tuition fees in line with international fees.
All tuition fees quoted relate to a single year of study unless stated otherwise. Tuition fees will be subject to an annual inflationary increase, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
More information on postgraduate tuition fees .
Additional course costs
Financial Aid & Scholarships
Financial Aid & Funding Opportunities
A range of funding options may be available to students enrolling at Queen's University Belfast. Explore all options early — many scholarships have deadlines months before programme start.
- University Scholarships: Queen's University Belfast may offer merit-based, need-based, or programme-specific scholarships for postgraduate students. Contact the international or financial aid office for current awards.
- Government Scholarships (): National governments often fund outbound and inbound student mobility. Check your home country's government scholarship schemes (e.g., national student loan bodies, ministry of education awards).
- International Scholarships: Major funders include: Commonwealth Scholarships, Fulbright (USA programmes), Chevening (UK), Erasmus+ (Europe), DAAD (Germany), Campus France, Australia Awards, and many more.
- Employer Sponsorship: Professionals returning to study may negotiate tuition sponsorship with their employer, particularly for MBA or executive programmes.
- Graduate Assistantships / Fellowships: Some universities offer funded research or teaching assistant positions that include a stipend and partial or full tuition waiver.
- External Foundations: Rotary Foundation, Aga Khan Foundation, Ford Foundation, and many discipline-specific bodies fund postgraduate study globally.
- Payment Plans: Flexible instalment plans may allow you to spread tuition payments across the academic year.
About Queen's University Belfast
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University Profile- Start Date 2017-09-25
- Language English
- Duration 12 months
- Credits 60 ECTS / 180 credits (1-year programme)