Course summary

Indicate point of entry as Year 3 when applying for this top-up degree. Course overview: This international business with human resource management top-up course allows students with a Higher National Diploma or Foundation degree in business to study for one year and achieve an honours degree in business with a human resource management focus. Organisations are only as good as the people who work within them – a successful HRM practitioner maximises employee performance, helping business to gain a competitive edge. Whether you want to work with international companies, start-ups or not-for-profit organisations, this course gives you the skills and expertise to accelerate your career in HRM and the wider field of business. Join a community of learners from over 100 different countries to develop your management knowledge in a cross-cultural context. The emphasis is on you taking control of your own learning, advancing you as a business thinker and decision maker through workshop-based, interactive and developmental activities. Top reasons to study this course 1. Real-world experience: our students work on live projects offering tailored real-world consultancy services to small businesses, social enterprises, sole traders and start-ups in the Tees Valley area through our business clinics. 2. Entrepreneurial opportunities: our students have created 500 new business start-ups through Launchpad and Microbiz – a start-up community who provide support and advice for students looking to start a new business venture. 3. International community – benefit from Teesside University Business School’s great international community to develop your management knowledge in a cross-cultural context. After the course: We provide an environment that allows you to build on and further develop the extra practical employability characteristics that make you more attractive to employers in the job market once you graduate. Our staff use their extensive business connections to provide many and varied opportunities to engage with potential employers through fairs, guest lecture sessions, live projects and site visits. In addition we offer a series of workshops and events that ensure all students are equipped with both degree-level subject knowledge plus the practical skills that employers are looking for in new graduate recruits. Our award-winning careers service works with regional and national employers to advertise graduate positions, in addition to providing post-graduation support for all Teesside University alumni.