MBA in HR

Management field is the most popular field which polishes the managerial and leadership skills. The management courses help to manage the resources in the most significant and effective manner. Masters of Business Administration or mostly referred as MBA in short, is a professional and technical post graduation course of two years pursued after a bachelor degree program.

Human Resources is mostly referred to HR. It is all about recruitment, selection, training and development, appraising the performances, compensation, reimbursements, providing benefits, managing relationships with the employees of an organisation.

The very first face that an employee meets is the HR of any organisation. Human resources play an important and crucial role in a company.

The duties that a HR performs in an organisation are:

• Screening resumes
• Recruitment, onboarding, retention
• Maintain legal policies and conveying them to the employees
• Training the employees
• Arranging the events
• Explaining job role and job growth hierarchy
• Engagement of employees in company’s events
• Hiring and firing policies
• Conducting entry and exit interviews
• Liasoning with other organisations
• Recruiting as per the demand of the organisation & a lot more.

MBA in Human Resources Management or MBA HRM is a postgraduate program specially meant for those who want to work in the domain of management with human resources. Students with a good personality and excellent communication skill sets are best suitable for this course.

• Excellent command over language
• Good personality
• Planning and Supervising skills
• Decision making skills
• Leadership skills
• Convincing skills
• Empathy

• Broad Scope of Employment Opportunities
• Job Security
• Fixed Working Hours and Good salary package
• Reputed job role
• Stability in job
• Better career option with improved interpersonal skills

MBA is a regular program done after the completion of a bachelor’s degree. Students who have successfully completed their graduation course with 50% or more can choose this program. The course requires proper attendance, assignments and students are required to maintain proper records of class attendance and exam scores.

MBA Executive program is designed for the students who are in their job but wish to pursue higher education altogether.

MBA Distance program fulfils the needs of those who are unable to join the college due to location issues. Such students can join the MBA Distance program from their home and the college will send the study material at home only. This will help such students to pursue the course without any difficulties.

MBA Online is also an alternate option for MBA Distance. The difference in both is that in MBA Online courses, the study material is made available online and classes are held on online platforms.

Admission Process

Admission into the MBA program is through various entrance exams held every year. Admission in IIMs is through CAT exam, XLRI Jamshedpur takes admission through the scores of XAT exam, Symbiosis takes admission through SNAP test, Narsee Monjee takes admission through NMAT exam and so on.

Some of the national level entrance examinations are as follows:

• CAT (i.e. Common Admission Test)
• MAT (i.e. Management Aptitude test)
• XAT (i.e. Xavier Aptitude Test)
• SNAP (i.e. Symbiosis National Aptitude Test)
• NMAT (i.e. NMIMS Management Aptitude Test)
• IBSAT ( i.e. ICFAI Business Studies Aptitude Test)
• ATMA (i.e. AIMS Test for Management Admissions)
• MHT-CET (i.e. Maharashtra Common Entrance Test) and many other entrance tests.

• Shortlist the best colleges of your choice offering the specialisation you want.
• Make a lot of all those colleges and apply to their entrance exam which is a major step to enter.
• Prepare yourself as best as you can to perform well in the entrance exams.
• Once qualified, wait for your final call letter which is sent by the colleges after the conduction of the Group Discussion round and Personal interview round.
• On getting selected, Pay your fee installments and get your seat confirmed.
• In case, students do not get the college of his/her choice, they can still apply to other colleges through the common entrance exams.

The top ranked colleges as per NIRF Ranking are:

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Other top MBA Human Resource Management colleges in India are:

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has ranked the HR jobs as 35th most promising field out of a total of 800. The trend-graph of HR jobs has never gone down and never will be. The demand of a HR is always there in an organisation - be it small or large sector. The team of HR is always small as compared to other departments, hence making it an important and integral part of the company.

Better the HR team will be, better will be the employees hired in the organisation.

Sectors where MBA in Human Resources Management students get placed:

• Multinational Companies
• BPO
• Education
• Banking and Financial Sector
• Corporate Sectors
• Consultancy Firms
• Ecommerce
• Others (Hospitality, Automobiles etc.)

Salary Trends

HR acts as a catalyst in a company. Salary is one of the leading factors why students chooses MBA in HRM. HR jobs have many advantages. In India, the average salary of a HRM student is around 7-10 LPA.

HR jobs in a government organisation are paid around 8 -12 LPA on an average.