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.
Study a Master of Human Resources at UC and you will:
- Learn about organisational behavioural principles, research methods and intervention strategies
- Gain practical skills and tools for day-to-day hr operations
- Understand what it takes to be an effective leader by assessing your own strengths, weaknesses, values, beliefs and leadership style
- Use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve problems
- Master and apply advanced quantitative, qualitative and mixed research methods
Key facts
What you will study
To earn the Master of Human Resource Management, students must complete 48 credit points. Each unit is worth three credit points.
Students must pass 45 credit points as follows:
- 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
Applicants must have an undergraduate degree or equivalent as approved by the university.
English language requirements
An IELTS Academic score of 6.5 overall, with no band score below 6.0 (or equivalent).
Recognition of Prior Learning
If you have previous studies or professional work experience that is relevant to your intended field of study at UC, you can gain credit towards your degree. This reduces the number of units you must take to complete your course, meaning you could finish your studies sooner and save money too.
For more information, please get in touch with the university or visit its website.
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 CSP
Average full-course fee in 2026: From $33,202 (Commonwealth Supported Place)
The average full-course fee is calculated based on a full-time study load of 48 credit points (16 units).
Student fees 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.
You may also need to pay the student services and amenities fee.
Student fees shown are subject to change. Contact the university directly to confirm.
Commonwealth Supported Places
The Australian Government allocates a certain number of CSPs to the universities each year, which are then distributed to students based on merit.
If you're a Commonwealth Supported Student (CSS), you'll only need to pay a portion of your tuition fees. This is known as the student contribution amount – the balance once the government subsidy is applied. This means your costs are much lower.
Limited CSP spaces are offered to students enrolled in selected postgraduate courses.
Your student contribution amount is:
- Calculated per the unit you're enrolled in.
- Dependent on the study areas they relate to.
- Reviewed and adjusted each year.
HECS-HELP loans are available to CSP students to pay the student contribution amount.