Business Management with Human Resources with Placement

Business management with human resources is a combination that addresses the full scope of how organisations are run and how the people within them are led, developed, and motivated. Business management provides the broad framework, encompassing strategy, finance, marketing, and operations, while human resource management focuses on the people dimension, covering recruitment, learning and development, performance management, employee relations, and organisational culture. Together, they prepare you for roles that require both commercial awareness and genuine expertise in managing people.

At Birkbeck, with its London location and its long tradition of high-quality professional education, this four-year full-time degree with a placement year introduces you to the key functions of business and to the specific knowledge, skills, and professional attitudes that employers look for in people management roles. You will develop commercial understanding alongside expertise in HR practice, learning how people management contributes to organisational success and what it takes to build and sustain high-performing teams. The placement year gives you structured professional experience in an HR or business role, significantly strengthening your employability and your understanding of how the subject operates in practice.

Graduates go on to careers in human resource management, talent acquisition, learning and development, organisational development, employee relations, people analytics, and a range of general management roles where people management expertise is valued. Professional qualification through the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development is an important credential in this field, and the degree is designed to support your development toward that goal. Many graduates also continue to postgraduate study in human resource management or business, building specialist expertise that accelerates their professional development.