Study program
Human resource management

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One – year study program

Study program: Human resource management
Faculty: Economics and organization of entrepreneurship
Degree: Master’s degree (second cycle)
Location: Sveti Nikole or Bitola, Republic of North Macedonia
Duration of study:  1 year (2 semesters)
Condition: to have earned at least 240 ECTS credits
Courses: 6
ECTS of the program: 60
ECTS after completion: 300
Awarded degree: Master of Organizational Sciences (Human Resource Management study program)
Tuition fee per year: EUR 2030

In the Human Resource Management study program, you will learn how to “make room” for modern management models that are more flexible, more practical, and above all, more humane. This is a postgraduate program lasting one year (4+1) and worth 60 ECTS credits. Admission requirementis for the student to have a completed undergraduate degree with a total of at least 240 ECTS credits.

Human Resource Management can be defined as managing both work and people with the aim of achieving desired results. It represents a key component of every organization, where the high performance of the people involved is placed on the same level of importance as the organization’s overall goals.

Master's degree

Available at Sveti Nikole and Bitola.

In modern organizations, among all fundamental resources (raw materials, machinery, capital, and people) the emphasis is deliberately placed on people. Human Resource Management is a complex process, closely intertwined with other aspects of business, and serves as a strategic partner in achieving organizational goals.

The studies will enable you to gain knowledge of the diverse activities and functions of human resource management to plan the required number and structure of employees to analyze and design jobs and workplaces to recruit select and assign employees as well as to develop the potential of each employee.

You will know why motivation at work is important and how it is stimulated, why organizational culture and its continuous improvement are important and how power is distributed in the organization, why political processes exist and how they should be organized within it.

Во рамките на едногодишните студии се опфатени 6 предмети кои студентите треба да ги положат. Од понудените 6 изборни предмети, студентите избираат само 2.

After completing the studies and preparing the master’s thesis you obtain the professional title Master of Organizational Sciences (Human Resource Management study program).

Study program
one – year degree program

9 semester

  • Strategic Human Resource Management
    Required

    6 ECTS

  • Contemporary Management Theories and Practices
    Required

    6 ECTS

  • Mentorship
    Electve

    6 ECTS

  • International Human Resource Management
    Elective

    6 ECTS

  • Knowledge Management
    Elective

    6 ECTS

  • Corporate Governance
    Elective

    6 ECTS

  • Labor Economics
    Elective

    6 ECTS

  • Marketing Management
    Elective

    6 ECTS

  • Organizational Behavior – Intermediate Level
    Elective

    6 ECTS

10 semester

  • Research Methodology
    Required

    6 ECTS

  • Organizational Design and Change
    Elective

    6 ECTS

  • Master's Thesis

Admission
requirements

Right to enroll in the second cycle of studies have candidates who have completed the first cycle of studies with 240 ECTS earned (completed four-year studies)

Right to enroll also have students from other accredited faculties and foreign citizens (regulated by law)

Candidates enroll without taking an entrance exam.

Documents
for admission

When applying for admission to the master’s program from outside the Republic of North Macedonia, students are required to prepare the following documents:

  • Higher Education Diploma (certified with an Apostille Stamp or a stamp from the respective Ministry of Foreign Affairs for countries not members of the Hague Convention);
  • Transcript of Records or Diploma Supplement;
  • Decision from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of North Macedonia for the recognition of the diploma for completed higher education (our university offers assistance in obtaining this document);
  • Birth Certificate;
  • Certificate of Citizenship;
  • 4 passport-size color photographs.

The application documents should be submitted to the International Slavic University:

  • in Sveti Nikole, located at Marshal Tito No. 77 – 2220 Sveti Nikole, Republic of North Macedonia or
  • in Bitola, located at Novachki Pat No. 16 – 7000 Bitola, Republic of North Macedonia.

Tuition
fees

For international students, the tuition fee is EUR 2030 per year. International students are required to pay the full amount of the yearly tuition fee at the beginning of the academic year.

For more information please visit the Tuition Fees page.

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