The Shields School of Business MHRM Program serves both the HR professional established in a career as well as those aspiring to enter the field. The MHRM program is career-focused, comprehensive in scope and structured to meet the needs of working professionals as well as persons studying full time to earn the degree. To find out more about our online program, please visit our Online MHRM Website.

1. Flexibility. We know your schedule is filled with career, family, and life demands. Our classes can be taken face-to-face or online so you can learn at your convenience. Many classes are offered at off-campus locations in Altoona and Johnstown.... [-]

The MHRM requires a minimum of 30 credit hours in 9 required courses (27 credits) and one (3 credit) industry project/practicum. The comprehensive industry project is rooted in applying analytical and conceptual skills, knowledge and tools to a real-time strategic HR problem. Admitted students not having an undergraduate degree in business will be required to take, prior to enrolling in the MHRM program, two pre-requisite courses (remedial courses) of 3 credits each.

Participants normally complete the program in 15 – 18 months depending on their backgrounds. Classes are normally delivered in three full days (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) every 3 weeks requiring approximately 1.25 years (15 months) for program completion.... [-]

The Master of Human Resource Management degree program will help prepare you to provide a strategic staffing vision across multiple disciplines in the business environment and help you be able to assess and respond to your company's business goals to ensure that your most valuable asset - your people - are available, capable and effective. We are continually evolving our curriculum to ensure that the Master's in Human Resource Management program is aligned with the current HR Curriculum Guidebook and Templates of the Society for Human Resource Management.

The Master of Human Resource Management degree program is available in the following locations:

Located in Columbus, Ohio, the Master of Human Resource Management (MHRM) program at Fisher College of Business is one of the very few HR graduate programs in the United States taught within a college of business. At Fisher, you will find a unique combination of benefits that separates a Fisher MHRM from the pack:

Master of Human Resources

Innovation, customer service and efficiency all depend on hiring the right people, developing their skills and abilities, motivating them through effective reward systems and helping them learn how to function as part of a business team. A key factor separating successful firms from less-profitable competitors is how each manages its human resources. Human resources play a central role in all of the major challenges facing businesses today.

Established in 1983, the Master of Human Resources program at the Darla Moore School of Business has become a recognized leader in this field. Moore has built this reputation with:

The Master of Management/Human Resources Management program is designed to enhance the management skills students need to function effectively within an organization. Students learn to synthesize business concepts and practices presented in this program to develop solutions for specific managerial situations found within the organizational environment. Areas of focus include the development of human capital, implementation of organizational initiatives, managing conflict, fostering creativity, innovation through organizational design, and managing in a cross-cultural environment.

The Master of Management program at the University of Phoenix utilizes problem-based learning where students refine their problem-solving skills along with their communication, creativity, information-utilization, and critical-thinking skills. They are assessed on the basis of their use of the problem-solving process (which employs a general rubric) as well as their communication and critical-thinking skills during their presentations. Learning teams will apply the principles of benchmarking throughout the program to research the most creative solutions to a problem. This will enrich the alternatives that learners consider in evaluating possible solutions to the problems.... [-]

By pursuing a Master of Human Resources Management Degree, the skills you have acquired in a specific field are recognized as pre-requisites for this advanced professional degree. Your prior knowledge and experience are enhanced by graduate studies which focus on your chosen profession.

The Master of Human Resources Management requires the completion of a minimum of 36 units which consist of a mixture of guided instruction and guided instruction/lab formats. Laboratory coursework is completed through practical business experience. Students complete a Professional Core and then select a Professional Focus as a course of study.

Each course is completed in 15 weeks, requiring contact with faculty, or a mutually approved and arranged equivalent. Students must own or have access to a computer. Each course requires the completion of both developmental and evaluative assignments. Completion of the developmental assignment must demonstrate a commitment to the acquisition of knowledge and skills within the course area, to the satisfaction of the faculty. Completion of the evaluative assignment must demonstrate mastery of all course material to the satisfaction of faculty, whose evaluation is expressed in the assignment of a final course grade. Specified in the outline for each course: Developmental and evaluative assignments, faculty contact, guided instruction, and laboratory and developmental components.... [-]