Human Resource Master's Degree and HR MBA

Both an MBA with a concentration in human resources and a human resource master's degree will prepare you to take on HR leadership positions across industries. MBA and master's in human resources graduates go on to attain such high positions as director or vice president of human resources.

While each track offers advanced training in human resources and managerial concepts and theories, the human resources MBA allows students to develop a broad set of business skills that can also transfer to other arenas.

In contrast, the highly specialized master's in HR offers students the opportunity to focus almost exclusively on issues related to human resources.

The curriculum for an MBA in human resources generally involves corporate management and business strategy concepts, organizational behavior and design, ethical leadership, and in-depth HR concepts and tools as they relate to general management.

Master of Human Resource Management—DeVry University

Core Courses - all courses required

Accounting and Finance: Managerial Use and Analysis
Legal, Political and Ethical Dimensions of Business
Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Managerial Applications of Information Technology
Marketing Management

Program-Specific Courses - Human Resource Planning and 5 other courses required

Managing Organizational Change
Human Resource Management
Training and Development
Employment Law
Strategic Staffing
Compensation
Benefits
Human Resource Planning

Electives - choose any four courses

MBA in Human Resources—Strayer University

Core Component

Managerial Accounting
Information Systems for Decision-Making
Economics and Management
Quantitative Methods

Major Component

Organizational Behavior
Reward Systems: Theory and Administration
Research and Strategic Communication
Financial Management
Directed Research Project

Concentration

Advanced Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining
Reward Systems: Theory and Administration
Human Resource Management
The Marketing Process