Overview

Throughout this Career Development and Employability degree programme delivered at the University of Huddersfield you'll learn about policy, practice and theories underpinning career guidance, equality and diversity, partnership working and research-based practice.

Key Facts

You will also learn how to employ independent learning strategies that will enable you deepen your knowledge and understanding of educational research while also developing your professional practice.

Having taught career guidance courses for over 40 years, we have established a strong national reputation in the sector. You'll have access to our extensive professional and academic network which feeds directly into course design and delivery and to our excellent facilities and specialist equipment.

If you’re looking to gain additional knowledge but cannot commit to the full-time one-year MA, you may choose the two years part-time route, or study the Postgraduate Diploma (PG Dip) which also leads to the award of the QCD (the Qualification in Career Development).

This course can lead to a wide variety of interesting and rewarding career prospects in the career guidance and development sector including higher and further education careers and employability services, secondary education and third-sector organisations. You can find out more via the CDI.

Programme Structure

Courses included:

Developing Professional Practice: Organisational Culture and Professional Practice

The Guidance Network

Critical Literature Review

Professional Research Project

Higher Education in Context

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months
Part-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-07 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-08-31 00:00:00
Starting 2027-01-18 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-12 00:00:00
Starting 2027-05-10 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-05-04 00:00:00

Language

English

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IELTS

6.5

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Credits

180 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Human Resource Management View 218 other Masters in Human Resource Management in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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General requirements

Entry requirements for this course are normally:

A degree or an equivalent professional qualification. Suitably experienced applicants without a degree will be considered.

In addition you must also have:

Relevant experience in a paid or voluntary basis.
Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and health clearances.
Complete a satisfactory interview.
International applicants must be available for interview in person or via Skype.

If your first language is not English, you will need to meet the minimum requirements of an English Language qualification. The minimum for IELTS is 6.5 overall with no element lower than 6.0, or equivalent. Read more about the University’s entry requirements for students outside of the UK on our Where are you from information pages.

Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

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Non-residents

7900 GBP / year

≈ 7900 GBP / year
Domestic Applies to you

Applies to you

Citizens or residents

7900 GBP / year

≈ 7900 GBP / year

Living costs

Huddersfield

United Kingdom

600 - 1000 GBP / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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