Course summary

This innovative course allows you to top up your existing qualifications to an honour’s degree in two years full-time or three years sandwich, whilst benefiting from all that Northumbria University and the city of Newcastle has to offer. This course has been designed to give you the ideal balance between a broad understanding of how businesses operate globally in an increasingly competitive environment, coupled with specialist knowledge of human resources in an industry focused curriculum. This course supports your academic skills development and employability opportunities while providing knowledge of contemporary business management models and frameworks become knowledgeable about the theory and practice of human resource management. The course includes specialist modules in resourcing and development for diversity, and human resource management essentials. With a human resources specialism as part of your degree award, you’ll build your professional and practice capabilities through problem-based and experiential learning. This approach will equip you with the skills and qualities sought by employers across the private, public, and not-for-profit (NFP) sectors that underpin successful enterprise. The relevance, rigour and internationalisation of this course are set to meet some of the highest and most demanding levels of accreditation. There’s plenty of support for you to develop the academic study skills that are required. Whatever your background, we’ll help you take the more critical, deeper, and research-informed approach that’s needed for an honour’s degree at a UK university. The course is covered by the prestigious Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation for Newcastle Business School. According to AACSB, “Approximately 6% of the world's schools offering business degree education have achieved AACSB accreditation, demonstrating a commitment to high-quality, rigorous standards, innovation, and continuous process improvement”.