Business Administration - Human Resources

Overview

Whether you’re planning a work-life balance event, or considering how to attract the best candidates for a new position, you never want to lose sight of bottom line business values: what’s the budget, and how do we measure the returns on our investment? The Business Administration - Human Resources program at Anderson University (South Carolina) will enhance your value as an HR professional because you’ll understand—and employ—the business principles that make your company thrive.

Anderson University (South Carolina)'s faculty members are established leaders in the state’s human resources community, from the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM) to the state’s Chamber of Commerce.  You’ll benefit from our faculty members’ decades of experience and extensive professional network. Through this nine-credit concentration, you’ll study senior-level HR paradigms in compensation management and talent acquisition as well as current issues in human resource management.

Your future in HR

Adding the HR concentration to your MBA will help you align your desire with helping professionals through hiring, promotion and compensation to your organization’s business objectives. You’ll be prepared to become a more valuable HR professional and equipped to become an HR business partner. You’ll have the expertise to advise management on HR-related interests, from providing a cost-benefit analysis of hiring an external job recruiter to what comprises a strategic benefit package for executives. Salaries for HR business partners can exceed $140,000.