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Business Division

Human Resources

Personnel, productivity and policy…human resources is an ever-changing field melding function and finances with strategic planning and procedures.

Students meeting with professor outdoorsYou’ll learn key management principles and techniques pertinent to recruitment and retention, compensation and benefits, labor relations and employment law.

Comprehensive

B-W’s liberal arts focus combines business fundamentals with holistic learning.  Our real-world experienced business professors help you succeed in a marketplace that is constantly changing, increasingly global and highly competitive. Courses in the humanities and social/natural sciences offer you opportunities to enrich multi-cultural perspectives and hone communication and critical thinking skills useful in managing people and projects.

Professional

Our human resources curriculum is approved by the Human Resources Certification Institute (HRCI).  All for-credit human resources credit, both undergraduate and graduate, is acceptable for HRCI continuing education.   

Future-focused

Well respected in the business community, B-W’s human resources program offers you the option of earning a bachelor’s degree or following a 3/2 program.  The 3/2 program allows you to accelerate your studies and earn both a bachelor’s and an M.B.A. degree in five years.

Experiential

Internships, group discussions, community and corporate partnership programs, and professional student organizations put you in contact with B-W faculty and business leaders focusing on today’s relevant issues.   

 Versatile

Career options in human resources include:

•employee relations manager         •personnel recruiter                •benefits specialist
•human resource manager              •employment counselor         •trainer

 Offered as a major and minor