University of Canberra
Master of Human Resource Management
- Delivery: Face to Face
- Study Level: Postgraduate
- Course Type: Master's
Gain the expertise necessary to excel in HR management roles and contribute significantly to your personal and professional success.
Course overview
UC’s Master of Human Resource Management is designed to prepare you for managerial positions requiring a comprehensive understanding of human resources, a crucial role within organisations.
Whether you're already working in an HR field or considering a career in human resource management, you can build on your existing professional knowledge with a strong theoretical foundation, elevating your ability to use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve real-world problems.
Across the course, you'll acquire specialised skills in areas such as employee recruitment and selection, training and development and performance management. Additionally, this degree emphasises the importance of a strategic approach to effectively managing people in paid employment and fostering leadership development.
Key facts
27th July, 2026
What you will study
To complete the Master of Human Resource Management, you must complete 48 credit points (CP) taken from the following units. Each unit is valued at three CP.
Complete the following:
- Economics for Managers
- Leadership in Contemporary Organisations
- Human Behaviour in Organisations
- Research Methods
- Institutions of Law and Government
- Business and Management in Context
- Entrepreneurship
- Business Decision Making
- Sustaining the Employment Relationship
- Managing Human Capital
- Sourcing and Building Capability
- Workplace Law in Context
- Shaping Behaviour and Strengthening Performance
- Integrating and Aligning Human Capital
- Strategy, Innovation and Change
Entry requirements
Academic requirements
Applicants must have an undergraduate degree or equivalent as approved by the university.
English language requirements
Applicants must have an IELTS Academic score of 6.5 overall, with no band score below 6.0 (or equivalent).
Outcomes
Career outcomes
The human resources field is broad and continuously evolving, offering a range of exciting roles across industries and sectors, including:
- HR officer or manager
- HR director
- HR consultant
- Talent acquisition manager
- Training and development manager
- Compensation and benefits manager
- Employee relations manager
- Organisational development specialist
- HR analytics specialist
- Diversity and inclusion manager
- Change management consultant
- HR policy advisor
- Talent management specialist
Learning outcomes
- Apply concepts, theories and experience to business problems and propose sustainable solutions demonstrating initiative, creativity and social responsibility.
- Analyse and synthesise contemporary theory and practice relating to the external context in which organisations operate.
- Critically evaluate a range of core and contemporary concepts and theories of organisations and their management.
- Critically analyse and integrate human resource management theory to future work challenges and practices in an organisational context.
- Analyse and apply a range of contemporary entrepreneurial and enterprise skills and approaches to business innovation and organisational change.
- Analyse and synthesise information and be able to critique and effectively communicate in a business and management context.
Fees and FEE-HELP
Indicative full course fee (2025): $61,800 (domestic full-fee paying place)
Indicative annual fee (2025): $30,900 (domestic full-fee paying place)
The fees shown are the annual fee rates for the course. The annual rate is the fee that applies to standard full-time enrolment, which is 24 CP.
A student’s annual fee may vary in accordance with:
- The number of units studied per term.
- The choice of major or specialisation.
- Choice of units.
- Credit from previous study or work experience.
- Eligibility for government-funded loans.
Student fees shown are subject to change. Contact the university directly to confirm.
FEE-HELP loans are available to assist eligible full-fee paying domestic students with the cost of a university course.