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Master of Business (Human Resource Leadership)
PostgraduateUSQ-HRL-MAS2025
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Enhance organisational performance through effective team management
Strengthen your organisation from the employees up to retain a competitive advantage. Get strategic about performance management. Focus on people development. Connect with the latest research and industry insights.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Credit available
- Yes
- Duration
- 2 years full time or part time equivalent
- Total subjects
- 16
- Available loans
- Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
- CSP available
- Yes
Master of Business (Human Resource Leadership)
About this degree
Upon completion of the Master of Business, students will be able to:
- Influence organisational adaptability by researching and designing solutions to dynamic issues and changing landscapes by applying a synthesis of established theories and complex specialist knowledge in collaborative teams.
- Master complex informational inputs from a variety of sources and stakeholders to ensure that the interests of others (including organisational, cultural/societal, and environmental) and professional responsibilities are considered and addressed.
- Leverage and integrate the availability of digital technologies and automation relevant in the domain of specialist expertise to drive current and future business performance.
- Communicate specialist knowledge and expert judgements to both specialist and non-specialist audiences to build professional credibility and influence.
- Exercise a growth mindset using independent critical and reflective thinking and self-directed learning to operate as an adaptive and ethical professional.
- Cultivate a professional identity and career trajectory by exhibiting the human capabilities, research skills and knowledge demanded by modern organisations.
- Efficient and successful business depends on the effective management of the team upon which the business is built. Learn how to optimise and enhance every employee’s capability, so organisations can remain strong in their competitive spaces. It is through strategic approaches to performance management and people development that organisations are more able to retain employees, compete and be successful in a sustainable way. The Human Resource Leadership specialisation is designed to align with the latest research and industry knowledge on what is expected of HR practitioners from a client and team perspective.
Recommended study pattern
MGT5100 Harnessing Human Capabilities for the Future of Work
MGT5102 Strategy, Innovation and Business Research
FIN5100 Data and Decision Making
MGT6606 The Ready Business Professional
MGT5101 Adaptive Leadership
MKT5001 Service Experience
MGT5103 Talent Strategy
ECO5000 Managerial Economics
MGT6134 People and Culture
MGT6130 Optimising Workforce Capability
MGT6131 Employment Relations Across Boundaries
MGT6106 Inclusive Workplaces
MGT6149 Building an Engaged Workforce
MGT6143 Contemporary HR Issues for Managers
MGT6133 Leading Organisational Change
MGT6002 Organisational Project Management FuturesAward requirements
Completion of 16 units as outlined in the Recommended Study Pattern section.Exit points
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Indicative first year fee
$16,323
Indicative total fee $32,646
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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- 24
- Times Higher Education Ranking 2024:
- 24
Entry requirements
- Completion of an approved Bachelor degree in the area of business, or equivalent, or equivalent minimum of three years professional work experience (at ANZSCO Skill Level 1-3). Proof of meeting the English Language Proficiency requirements is also required.
- 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
The Human Resource Leadership specialisation is accredited by the Australian HR Institute. Graduating students automatically qualify for Graduate membership, the professional-level membership offered to recent HR graduates in the first two years of their HR career (GAHRI). Once graduated, if you’ve had industry experience for 2 + years HR or people management you will qualify for AHRI professional membership (MAHRI). Graduate members receive all the professional level benefits at a subsidised rate including professional indemnity insurance and full access to member resources to build valuable networks for their future in the profession.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