MBA in Human Resource Management
Course Overview
The MBA in Human Resource Management at the London School of Commerce and Technology (LSCT) is a one-year (or two-year part-time) postgraduate degree for working HR professionals stepping into senior HR business-partner, talent-strategy and chief-people-officer track roles from 2026. It is taught on-campus in central London, fully online with live seminars and through distance learning with structured deadlines.
You will move beyond HR administration into the C-suite agenda — workforce strategy, organisation design, total reward, employee-relations litigation risk and the people side of M&A. The capstone is a strategic HR consultancy project with a UK employer, defended at a panel that includes serving HR directors.
Key Features of the MBA in Human Resource Management
- CIPD-aligned syllabus mapped onto CIPD Level 7 Advanced Diploma content for the senior HR pathway.
- Three study modes — on-campus in central London, fully online with live seminars, or distance learning with structured deadlines.
- UK employment-law module covering tribunal practice and recent case law.
- Total-reward simulation with current UK benchmark data.
- Strategic HR consultancy capstone with a UK employer client.
- HR director panel defence for the final project.
- Saturday remuneration-committee simulation chaired by a serving HR director.
UK HR Senior-Track Context
UK HR has been reshaped by the gender-pay-gap regime, the Worker Protection Act 2023, the new statutory flexible-working framework and growing employee-relations litigation. Senior HR hiring panels now want business partners who can quote case law, defend a redundancy plan and present a reward redesign at remuneration committee. The MBA in Human Resource Management is sequenced against that environment.
What You Will Learn on the MBA in Human Resource Management
The MBA is structured around four senior-HR territories — strategy, organisation, reward and risk — and assessed through case work, an executive board paper and the capstone. You will graduate able to read a workforce plan, write a redundancy proposal that stands up in a tribunal, and present a reward redesign to a remuneration committee.
- Strategic human-resource management and the workforce plan.
- Organisation design and the people side of change.
- UK employment law, tribunal practice and recent case law.
- Reward strategy — total reward, benchmarking and the UK gender-pay-gap regime.
- Talent management — succession, high-potential identification and DEI.
- Employee engagement and culture measurement.
- Workforce analytics and HR data.
- Strategic HR consultancy capstone.
- People-side M&A — TUPE, harmonisation and post-deal culture work.
Assessment combines a written executive board paper, a UK employment-law case-note exercise, the total-reward simulation, an organisation-design exercise, and the strategic HR consultancy capstone defended at a panel of serving HR directors. Tutors are senior HR practitioners drawn from UK corporates, consultancies and the public sector. The MBA in Human Resource Management produces graduates with documentation a UK head-of-HR hiring panel actually wants to see. The careers strand connects students to UK head-of-HR networks across listed corporates, fast-growth scale-ups and the public sector, and supports applications into chartered membership of CIPD as well as senior partner-track roles in HR consultancies.
- HR professionals stepping into senior-business-partner and head-of-HR roles.
- Line managers moving into a strategic-people function.
- Consultants in change and organisation design adding HR depth.
- International HR professionals seeking a UK-recognised MBA in human resources.
Career Pathways
LSCT MBA HR graduates enter senior HR business-partner, head-of-HR and people-consultancy roles across UK corporates, consultancies and the public sector. Many continue onto Chartered Membership of CIPD; others move into doctoral study in HR or organisation studies.
- Senior HR Business Partner
- Head of HR (SME)
- Reward Manager
- Talent Acquisition Lead
- People & Culture Manager
- HR Consultant (mid-tier)
The MBA is also a recognised foundation for postgraduate research in HR, organisation studies or labour economics.
Entry Requirements
- A UK 2:2 honours degree (or international equivalent) in any subject, plus at least two years of professional experience.
- Applicants from non-cognate fields may apply with five years' senior management or HR experience.
- IELTS 6.5 overall (no band below 6.0) for non-native English speakers.
- A personal statement, two references and a short executive interview.
Why Study at LSCT
The London School of Commerce and Technology (LSCT) is a specialist higher-education provider based in central London and part of Harold International College. We teach in small cohorts so every student is visible to their tutor, run a single intake schedule that students can rely on, and partner with UK professional bodies so qualifications carry weight with employers. London puts Whitehall, the City, Silicon Roundabout, the Royal Courts of Justice, the West End and the NHS estate within a short tube ride of every classroom — and our students use that proximity in their projects, placements and graduate job hunts. Our MBA HR cohort holds a Saturday-morning remuneration-committee simulation chaired by a returning alumni HR director — the questions are the ones a real exec committee asks.
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