Duration
1.5 years full time / 3 years part time
Mode (Location)
Online
Intake
August, October
Key dates
Key dates
Fees
AUD $28,488 (2026 indicative first year fee). Commonwealth Supported Places (CSPs) are not available
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Course structure
Overview
100% online flexible learning
Our online Master of Human Resource Management is designed to fit your life. You’ll study one subject at a time, giving you more breaks throughout the year and helping you achieve deeper focus.
Study where and when it suits you, so you’re in control.
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Structure:
- 12 subjects (150 credit points)
- 10 core subjects
- 2 pathway-focused subjects
- Graduate in as soon as 24 months.
Pathways:
Align your study with your goals with the choice of two pathways, coursework and research.
The coursework pathway provides practical HR frameworks and strategic insights, enabling you to address workforce challenges, foster high-performance cultures and understand regulatory influences.
The research track builds advanced HR research expertise through an independent project to lay the groundwork for PhD-level research.
Coursework pathway
Guide your career and organisation towards success by developing expertise to create high-performance workplace cultures. Grounded in research and practical frameworks, this pathway equips you to manage people challenges, embrace digital transformation and lead with confidence in an ever-changing business world.
Research pathway
Work with world-leading academics actively researching human resource management to investigate a significant HR challenge of your choice. Your investigation can draw on insights gained throughout the course or on challenges and opportunities observed in your own professional experience.
This pathway is intended to equip you with a viable pathway to a PhD in human resource management.
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Profile
Andi Pekarek
Course Design Consultant
Dr Andi Pekarek studies how work, institutions, and markets interact to shape contemporary organisational life, and how HRM can promote fairness, sustainability, and better outcomes for people. He has published in leading international journals such as Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Human Resource Management Journal, and British Journal of Industrial Relations.
Through his role as Associate Editor of Research in the Sociology of Work, he helps shape the future direction of research on work and HRM.
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