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Bachelor of Business (Human Resource Management)
UndergraduateUSQ-HRM-DEG2025
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Get to know the business of people and culture
Study HR online with this accredited business degree. You’ll explore a range of HR topics including workforce design and employment relations. Learn how to recruit, retain, and develop talent in the workplace. Help organisations move forward.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Credit available
- Yes
- Duration
- 3 years full time or part time equivalent
- Total subjects
- 24
- Available loans
- Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
- CSP available
- Yes
Bachelor of Business (Human Resource Management)
About this degree
Upon successful completion of the program, students will be able to:
- Work autonomously and collaboratively to contribute to organisational initiatives by selecting and applying relevant theory to analyse and generate solutions to dynamic issues and changing landscapes.
- Evaluate inputs from various sources and stakeholders to ensure that the interests of others, including organisational, societal, environmental, and professional expectations, are recognised.
- Evaluate digital technologies, mechanisation, computerisation, and/or automation to support current and future business processes in the relevant domain of specialist expertise.
- Communicate broad-level specialist advice to others to build professional credibility.
- Exercise professional judgement using critical and reflective thinking and self-directed learning to continue developing as a self-reliant, ethical, and responsible professional.
- Leverage a well-developed professional identity by exhibiting the human capabilities and knowledge demanded by modern organisations.
- Become a leading workplace specialist with UniSQ’s Bachelor of Business (Human Resource Management) and learn to develop people and culture strategies that contribute value to an organisation’s mission, goals, and bottom line. Your studies cover workforce design and navigating employment relations, supporting employee performance and influencing change. At UniSQ you will connect with industry partners and work on real-life issues and case studies as well as a group project in your final year of study.
Recommended study pattern
Year 1
FIN1100 Commercialisation
MGT1001 Cultivating Talent
CIS1000 Digital Disruption
MKT1100 Customer Experience
MGT1101 Human Capabilities for Business
ECO1002 Market Behaviour
ACC1201 Data Insights and Financial Performance
MGT2301 Keeping People Safe and Well
Year 2
MGT2002 The Balanced Manager
MGT2004 Supporting Employee Performance
MGT2303 Cultivating Employee Engagement
MGT3005 Workforce Design
MGT3006 Navigating Employment Relations
3 x Electives
Year 3
MGT3007 Building Intelligent Organisations
MGT3002 Influencing Change
MGT3303 The Equipped Graduate
5 x Electives
Award requirements
Completion of 24 units as outlined in the Recommended Study Pattern section.Exit points
Associate Degree of Business, Diploma of Business.
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Indicative first year fee
$16,323
Indicative total fee $48,969
The amounts shown here are indicative for an Australian citizen studying full-time, which is typically 8 subjects per year.
Fees may vary depending on:
- the subjects you choose
- credit from previous work experience
- your eligibility for government funding loans or subsidies such as HECS-HELP or a Commonwealth supported place.
To learn more, go to Fees or contact a student advisor.
As Australia’s #1 university for graduate starting salary (Good Universities Guide, 2022), University of Southern Queensland is the right place to make real progress. Regardless of your education history, your age or your aspirations, at UniSQ you’ll be inspired by quality learning experiences matched with top resources and research. Having delivered distance and online learning for over 40+ years, UniSQ supports you to learn at your own pace—exactly how it suits you.
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- QS Ranking 2024:
- 24
- Times Higher Education Ranking 2024:
- 24
Entry requirements
- ATAR - 60.0 or equivalent; proof of meeting the English Language Proficiency requirements is also required.
- Completed VET qualifications can be used to derive an ATAR score or Selection Rank which may be used to meet the Entry Requirements for the program. We encourage you to reach out to the UniSQ team to discuss your options further.
- Work and Life experience may be used to derive an ATAR score or Selection Rank which may be used to meet the Entry Requirements for the program. We encourage you to reach out to the UniSQ team to discuss your options further.
- Exemptions/credit will be assessed based on the UniSQ Credit and Exemption Procedure. Claims for credit for previous study should be submitted prior to or at the time of enrolment. Each claim will be assessed on individual merit in line with UniSQ policy.
Career opportunities
Professional recognition
UniSQ is accredited for the Human Resource Management major by the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI). This major will satisfy the educational requirements for professional membership of AHRI.Australian job snapshots
Data sourced from Australian Jobs 2023.
Role | Earnings | Employment change |
|---|---|---|
Human Resource Managers | Over $120K | Up 85.7% |
Human Resource Professionals | $75K to $93K | Up 24.6% |
Human Resource Advisers | N/A^ | N/A^ |
^ There is no data available