Master of Arts - Human Resource Management

The MA Human Resource Management develops the full people-management toolkit across a year: resourcing and talent management, employment relations, learning and development, reward, employment law essentials, and HR analytics. Teaching runs in DMU’s block structure from the Hugh Aston Building, and the course is designed against the CIPD professional map, with casework anchored in the situations HR teams actually adjudicate — grievances, restructures, pay reviews and capability processes.

Practical assessment dominates: students run mock disciplinary hearings, build workforce plans from real-style headcount data, design onboarding and development programmes, and complete a management research project in place of a traditional dissertation. The source export for this course lists September entry, and unusually records no July application deadline, which the notes flag for checking against DMU’s live pages.

Block teaching gives this MA a rhythm working applicants appreciate: one module at a time, assessed and closed before the next opens, which makes the course navigable for students juggling part-time employment — and part-time HR administration work during the year is itself the strongest employability move available, since UK HR shortlists weight any live casework exposure heavily over classroom simulation.

The honest market read: HR is a popular destination and junior pay is modest (£22,000–£26,000 for officer-grade roles), but demand is broad-based across every sector and region, making it less London-dependent than finance or marketing. International graduates should target HR shared-service centres in the Midlands, which hire at volume. This taught MA carries Graduate Route eligibility — applications from 1 January 2027 receive 18 months (earlier applications, two years) — and, as across all taught programmes, dependants cannot accompany the student.