Human Resource Management

Overview

Key facts

The MSc Business Human Resource Management programme from UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School  is designed to provide a research-led professional education to students wishing to pursue a career in HRM and employment relations. 

The Human Resource Management and Employment Relations Group at UCD pioneered research in these fields at University level in Ireland and is now a centre for internationally-renowned research and studies.  

Students will benefit from learning values based on research, independent inquiry and critical but constructive engagement with major debates and issues. The UCD HRM and ER Group combines professional expertise in practice and policy development with a commitment to research.  Engagement with the practical worlds of industrial relations and human resource management is a core programme feature.  

Career opportunities

Students of the MSc in Human Resource Management are prepared for a career in private and public sector organisations, employer associations and trade unions and the research, consultancy and teaching professions.  

Graduates are traditionally employed in a wide range of sectors (private and public sector organisations, trade unions, research and consultancy) and companies (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, LinkedIn, Diageo, Accenture, Mercer and PwC, amongst others).

Graduates from this programme were employed after 6 months across a range of industry sectors.  (Source:  Latest Graduate Outcomes Survey)

Potential careers for our graduates include:

• Recruitment Consultant

• Talent Performance Specialist

• HR Business Partner

• Staffing Associate

• Personnel Officer

• Client Services

Accreditation

The programme is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the leading professional body for HR managers.