Human Resource Management & Business

Human Resource Management and Business is a degree that prepares you to understand, develop, and lead the people who make organisations function. Human resource management is concerned with attracting, developing, and retaining talent, managing employment relationships, designing reward systems, and ensuring that organisations comply with employment law and maintain a healthy workplace culture. Combining this with broader business knowledge ensures that you can situate HR decisions within the strategic and commercial context that makes them meaningful.

At Leeds Beckett University, this three-year, full-time programme includes a sandwich year and a year abroad, as well as work placement opportunities. You will cover the core areas of HR practice, including recruitment, learning and development, performance management, employee relations, and employment law, alongside business modules in strategy, finance, marketing, and operations. The programme is aligned with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and successful students can gain Associate Membership of the CIPD, a professional qualification that significantly enhances employability in the HR field.

The year abroad and sandwich year give you international and professional experience that complements your academic study and broadens your perspective on how people management works across different organisational and cultural contexts.

Graduates of Human Resource Management and Business move into roles as HR advisers, talent acquisition specialists, learning and development coordinators, people managers, and business partners across the full range of industries. The CIPD alignment gives graduates a recognised professional credential that accelerates their careers in the HR field. Many go on to postgraduate study in human resource management or corporate governance, and the programme provides direct routes to postgraduate business courses for those who want to develop further.

The combination of people skills and commercial understanding is valued by employers across the private, public, and voluntary sectors.