With BA (Hons) Business and Human Resource Management, learn to develop a company's most important asset: people.

BA (Hons) Business and Human Resource Management is designed to develop your capabilities to work at a strategic level around attracting, developing and engaging the right people. With most contemporary organisations recognising that people are their most important asset, a career in Human Resources enables you to play a key role in organisational success.

How does this course set me up for my future career?

At Newcastle Business School were committed to preparing you for your future career and helping you compete in the graduate labour market, applying your own learning to your own career planning. Our BA (Hons) Business and Human Resource Management programme is designed to support you in developing the key competencies, skills and attitude that graduates need. It provides you with the opportunity to gain an undergraduate honours degree in Business and HRM alongside professional membership from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). Developing leadership, enterprise and employability capabilities is at the heart of all module learning experiences and assessment.

We offer a number of additional opportunities to enhance your CV, develop your employability or enterprise skills, and increase commercial awareness. These include work placements, overseas travel and study, guest speakers and networking. We have links with the Northumbria University Business student society, which provide additional guest lectures and networking opportunities, as well as mock interviews to improve your preparation for future roles. There are also volunteering programmes both within and outside the University, and for representing your programme at Programme or School level.

Over the past five years, many of our students have successfully secured Human Resource Management positions in public and private organisations in roles for companies and organisations including PWC, Nissan, ITV and local authorities. Others have moved outside HRM to secure roles as management consultants and operations managers.

Mode of Study

3 years Full Time or 4 years with a placement (sandwich)/study abroad