Human resource management (or HRM) requires specialized skills—and few universities teach them better than Oakland University. Our Human Resource Management degree is one of just three in Michigan that’s accredited by the Society for Human Resource Management, the world’s largest professional HRM association. A human resource management degree equips you to recruit talented employees, develop healthy workplace culture, and help organizations and their people maximize their potential. These skills have value in almost every industry, so you’ll find human resource management job opportunities with all sorts of employers. Among our most recent human resource management degree graduates, 97 percent found a human resource management job or enrolled in graduate school within a year.
Human resource management (or HRM) requires specialized skills—and few universities teach them better than Oakland University. Our Human Resource Management degree is one of just three in Michigan that’s accredited by the Society for Human Resource Management, the world’s largest professional HRM association. A human resource management degree equips you to recruit talented employees, develop healthy workplace culture, and help organizations and their people maximize their potential. These skills have value in almost every industry, so you’ll find human resource management job opportunities with all sorts of employers. Among our most recent human resource management degree graduates, 97 percent found a human resource management job or enrolled in graduate school within a year.
Because we’re part of a flourishing economic region with an unusually broad mix of employers, our human resource management degree offers unique benefits that pay off in the job market. Our extensive partnerships in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors yield advanced opportunities for professional development, so you can get your human resource management career off to a strong start.
Because every organization needs human resource managers, you’ll find a broad spectrum of human resource management job descriptions and specialties. Our HRM degree prepares you for the full range of possibilities, with responsibilities that might include:
Our human resource management degree includes three elements: core courses, electives, and a capstone project consisting of either a professional internship or portfolio project. The program integrates theoretical concepts with practical, hands-on application that prepares you directly for human resource management jobs.
Coursework provides you with a comprehensive professional foundation, with subject matter that includes: