MSc International Business and Human Resource Management

Course summary

• Gain useful practical experience and solid theoretical expertise.
• Develop the skills you need to pursue an exciting career.
• Engage and network with real organisations via a live consultancy project.
• Strengthen your independent learning, personal responsibility and initiative.
• Attain the teamworking skills you need to successfully collaborate and communicate with others.

On this course, you'll approach your studies from a global perspective, and think about how business and HR is conducted across cultures and borders. Upon graduation, you'll be ready to apply for a range of exciting careers across the globe.

How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

Studying a range of topics through different learning methods, you’ll think about how international organisations approach human resource management.

You study international business topics such as globalisation, multinational enterprises, cross-cultural management, international strategy, and global supply chains. In terms of the course’s HR strand, you’ll look at areas such as human resource contexts and strategies, and international employee relations.

Our large and diverse teaching team combines practical industry experience and academic research expertise. This enables us to offer a course that blends real-world understanding and relevance with advanced subject knowledge and a truly international perspective.

You learn through

• lectures
• seminars
• workshops
• live projects
• simulations
• peer learning
• independent study

Future careers

This course prepares you for a career in :

• account management
• advertising
• business development
• retail buying
• consultancy
• marketing
• human resource management
• logistics management
• management consultancy
• market research analysis
• product management
• project management
• retail management.

Good degree (minimum second class honours) or international equivalent, normally in a business-related subject.