Program Overview
Learn more about our internationally recognized B.S.B.A. Human Resource Management degree.
Advance your ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees with our Bachelor of Science in Business Administration – Human Resource Management online at Northern Kentucky University. You will graduate prepared to help businesses thrive in an ultra-competitive job market by expertly matching sought-after employees to the professional roles that best fit their skillsets, along with the strategic goals of the organization.
This internationally recognized B.S.B.A. in human resource management expands your expertise in recruiting, hiring, and developing employees in alignment with organization values. The human resource management degree core courses help you gain hands-on experience with negotiation, mediation, and government regulations. Our program curriculum is approved by the Society for Human Resource Management, and our 100% online coursework is ideal for working professionals who want to immediately apply what they learn.
In this Human Resource Management B.S.B.A., you will:
- Develop essential knowledge and skills in effective training and development of employees
- Have an in-depth understanding of human resources planning, recruitment, and selection activities
- Understand economic impact of wages and benefits on the labor management process
- Understand how to make HR a strategic partner in organizations
Potential careers:
- HR Manager
- Training Manager
- Recruitment Specialist
- Benefits Specialist
The Haile College of Business is accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International).
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Tuition
Discover the value of our budget-friendly tuition
The B.S.B.A. in Human Resource Management offers the same affordable, pay-by-the-course tuition to in-state and out-of-state students. Financial aid may be available to eligible students.
Tuition breakdown:
| Program | Per Credit Hour* | University Fee Per Credit Hour** | Total Per Credit Hour** |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor of Science in Business Administration – Human Resource Management | $475 | $16 | $491 |
| With Path to Success Scholarship and Locked-In Tuition* | $275 | $16 | $291 |
Tuition and fees are subject to change at any time.
*The Path to Success Scholarship with Tuition Lock is available to first-time NKU OnlineA students only; existing students may not participate. The Scholarship is comprised of savings off the original price of $475, for a $275 per-credit-hour tuition rate, bringing the total cost to $291 per credit hour, including the activity fee. The Scholarship cannot be combined with any other offer and is not available for the RN to BSN online program. Students who step out of the program for more than a year (thus requiring a new application) will no longer receive the $275 tuition lock; instead, they must pay the tuition or scholarship rate available at the time of new enrollment. Excludes some program-specific fees that will be divided and assessed by credit hour based on the number of hours taken.
Tuition and fees subject to change at any time.
Calendar
Learn the important dates
The B.S. in Business Administration – Human Resource Management online program is delivered in a convenient online format with 7-week courses that start six times a year. View the full calendar to see all upcoming dates. When you're ready to get started, be sure to submit your application, registration, documents, and tuition by the corresponding deadlines.
Now Enrolling:
| Session | Program Start Date | Application Deadline | Document Deadline | Registration Deadline | Tuition Deadline | Last Class Day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 1 | 01/09/2023 | 01/03/2023 | 01/05/2023 | 01/06/2023 | 01/09/2023 | 02/24/2023 |
| Spring 2 | 03/13/2023 | 03/01/2023 | 03/06/2023 | 03/09/2023 | 03/13/2023 | 04/28/2023 |
| Summer 1 | 05/08/2023 | 04/26/2023 | 05/01/2023 | 05/04/2023 | 05/08/2023 | 06/23/2023 |
| Summer 2 | 06/26/2023 | 06/14/2023 | 06/19/2023 | 06/22/2023 | 06/26/2023 | 08/11/2023 |
| Fall 1 | 08/21/2023 | 08/09/2023 | 08/14/2023 | 08/18/2023 | 08/21/2023 | 10/06/2023 |
| Fall 2 | 10/18/2023 | 10/05/2023 | 10/10/2023 | 10/13/2023 | 10/18/2023 | 12/08/2023 |
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Admissions
Learn about our admissions requirements before starting your application
The admission process is the first step toward earning your B.S. in Business Administration – Human Resource Management online. Please reach out to one of our enrollment specialists for any questions you might have. Requirements for admission to this program include:
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B.S.B.A. in HR Management Online Admission Requirements
The B.S.B.A in HR Management online is a selective admission program. B.S.B.A. students enter as pre-majors prior to earning full admission. You must submit a $40 application fee plus meet the following requirements:
- B.S.B.A. pre-majors must complete six designated selective admission courses (ACC 200, ACC 201, BUS 230, ECO 200, ECO 201, and MKT 205—or approved equivalents if transferring)in the B.S.B.A. Business Core with a grade of C- or higher and earn an overall NKU GPA of 2.5 or higher to be admitted into any B.S.B.A. major
- All transfer students must complete a minimum of 12 credit hours at NKU (in any combination of courses) in order to establish an NKU GPA before applying for admission to the B.S.B.A. major
- Complete online application and pay $40 non-refundable application fee
- If you are an NKU alumni or active/veteran military member, your application fee will be waived. Simply submit the online application without payment of the application fee. The fee will be waived when your credentials are verified. No further action is required.
- Students who are 21 years of age or older or who will be turning 21 years of age during the semester they are admitted, are exempt from completion of the PCC and admission standards. These applicants are eligible to declare a non-selective major of choice and are encouraged to take placement test in English, Reading and Mathematics.
- ACT or SAT exam scores:
- Required ACT scores:
18 (English, math, reading) - Required SAT scores:
Prior to March 2016: 430 (math, writing); 450 (critical reading)
March 2016 to present: 480 (evidence-based reading and writing); 470 (math)
- Required ACT scores:
Official documents may be mailed or emailed to:
Northern Kentucky UniversityOffice of Admissions
Lucas Administrative Center
400 Nunn Drive
Highland Heights, KY 41099
Have a question? Call us at 800-985-7215.
Courses
Discover what you’ll learn in our online human resource management program
For the B.S.B.A in Human Resource Management online, students must complete 120 credit hours, including 50 business core credit hours, 15 human resource management core credit hours, 6 major elective credit hours, 12 free elective credit hours, and 37 general education credit hours. Consult with your academic advisor to devise an individual degree plan and to get answers to questions about required and elective courses.
Students must take the following courses:
ACC 200: Principles of Accounting I – Financial
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course covers the measurement of business transactions through the accounting cycle and communication of results to external parties through the preparation of the income statement, statement of shareholders' equity, balance sheet, and the statement of cash flows. Financial statement analysis is covered, as well as GAAP-based measurement (valuation) of cash, receivables, inventory, long-term assets, current and long-term liabilities, and stockholders' equity. Prerequisites: sophomore standing; completion of one college level mathematics course; completion of computer competence requirement as determined by student's major, or completion of BIS 101 or INF 101. Corequisite: ACC 200L.
ACC 200L: Financial Accounting Lab
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 1
This is a lab to accompany ACC 200, including an Excel project. Corequisite: ACC 200.
ACC 201: Principles of Accounting II – Managerial
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course examines management’s use of accounting information for decision-making and planning; is an introduction to management accounting terms and concepts. Elements of product costing; assessment of various costing systems such as actual, normal, and standard costing, and variable versus absorption costing is covered. Various topics such as outsourcing decisions, maximizing constraints, cost-volume-profit analysis, cost function estimation, activity-based costing, and management’s preparation and use of budgets and analysis of variances is also covered. Prerequisites: ACC 200 and sophomore standing.
BIS 300: Management Information Systems
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course covers the principles of Management Information Systems and is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of MIS and to apply problem-solving skills in Excel, Access, and Web development. Prerequisites: junior standing, STA 212 or STA 205 or STA 250 or BIS 275 and demonstrated competency in Word, Excel and PowerPoint, e.g., completion of INF 101 or equivalent transfer work or placement.
BIS 380: Quantitative Analysis with Excel
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 1
Business decisions require the basic skills of analyzing data to understand the problem more completely and to produce better answers. The business environment uses tools and techniques to accomplish this analysis. This course is designed to introduce students to those tools and techniques and how they can be automated. Prerequisites: BIS 300; STA 205 or STA 212, or STA 250.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 1
This course develops business professionalism and prepares students for successful internship and career employment interviews. It prepares students to leverage their accomplishments and academic preparation in creating and maintaining professional, career-oriented resumes. Prerequisites: a declared pre-major or major within the Haile/US Bank College of Business or Business Information Systems in the College of Informatics; completion of 40 semester credit hours. Students should complete BUS 201 before the completion of 75 semester credit hours.
BUS 230: Legal Environment of Business
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Concepts in legal environment; ethical considerations in business decisions; broad overview of judicial process, legal systems, contracts, torts, environmental and international issues, employment law, and consumer protection. Prerequisite: sophomore standing.
BUS 330: Ethics: Managerial Decision-Making
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course examines the application of ethics to decision-making in business; case method, discussion, and presentations. Prerequisites: BUS 230 and junior standing.
ECO 200: Principles of Macroeconomics
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Course covers introductory macroeconomics; national income and employment; economic growth, business cycles and inflation; economic role of government; role of money and banking system; international trade. General Education Credit: Individual and Society. Prerequisite: completion of one college-level mathematics course.
ECO 201: Principles of Microeconomics
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course examines individual market behavior in a capitalistic economy; role of supply and demand in determination of value and resource allocation; monopoly and its regulation; problems of economic growth; population growth, and environment. General Education Credit: Individual and Society. Prerequisite: completion of one college-level mathematics course.
ECO 305: Foundations of International Business
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course examines the challenges and opportunities of international business; survey and analysis of political, economic, social, cultural, and ethical differences among people who affect international business; survey of trade theory and global and financial institutions that affect trade. Prerequisite: ECO 200.
FIN 305: Principles of Finance
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course covers the basic concepts in finance including security markets, interest rates, taxes, risk analysis, time value of money, security valuation, short-term financial planning, capital budgeting, and capital structure. Prerequisites: ACC 200 and ACC 201, STA 205 or STA 212, and junior standing.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course covers linear functions, matrix algebra, linear programming, and probability. Emphasis on applications to business. General Education Credit: Mathematics. Prerequisite: C- or better in MAT 109 or placement.
MGT 300: Behavior in Organizations: Understanding Organizational Life
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course is an overview of the complex organizational, group, and individual processes constituting the internal environment of contemporary business organizations; understanding the dynamics and learning the concepts, theories, processes, and skills suggested by research to underlie effective planning, organizing, interacting, and controlling. Prerequisite: junior standing.
MGT 305: Operations Management in Business
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course examines concepts of operations in production and service organizations; application of quantitative and qualitative techniques to quality, human resources, forecasting, inventory, and process improvement problems. Prerequisites: MAT 114 and STA 205 or STA 212; junior standing.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course covers the application of theoretical knowledge to a wide variety of business situations; development of top management viewpoint in developing and assessing corporate strategy; case method and classroom presentations. Recommended to be taken during the last 18 semester hours of business coursework. Prerequisites: MGT 300, FIN 305, MGT 305, MKT 205 or MKT 305, senior standing, and open only to students certified as majoring in business disciplines.
MKT 205: Principles of Marketing
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course covers the flow of goods from producer to consumer; demand-stimulated and demand-fulfilling activities of business enterprises; marketing concepts and systems analysis. Prerequisite: sophomore standing.
STA 205: Introduction to Statistical Methods
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Graphical descriptive measures; numerical descriptive measures; probability; hypothesis testing, estimation; analysis of variance; chi-square; regression; analysis by means of statistical software. Not open to students who have completed STA 250 or STA 314. Prerequisites: P in MAT 101 or placement.
Students must take the following courses:
HRM 301: Training and Employee Development
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course will provide students the opportunity to develop essential knowledge and skills involved in the effective training and development of employees. This course will address the roles of organizational trainers and managers in employee training and development.
HRM 302: Recruiting and Selecting Human Resources
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Provides students in-depth knowledge of the human resources planning, recruitment, and selection activities performed in organizations. Exposure to the variety of recruiting sources and hiring techniques managers use to staff the organization will be stressed. The focus will be on developing within the student the ability to design recruitment and selection programs that support the organization’s short-and long-term strategies.
HRM 304: Compensation and Benefits
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Economic impact of wages and benefits on the labor management process; estimating the cost of the labor contract, benefits law, and effects of wages and benefits on the economy.
HRM 480: Strategic Human Resources Management
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course will provide students the opportunity to learn essential knowledge and skills involved in making the Human Resources function a strategic partner in organization. Emphasis will be placed on aligning HRM activities with organizations’ values and mission and using HRM activities to build the organizational capability and competitive advantage.
MGT 340: Human Resource Administration
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Recruitment and selection of labor force; training of employees; management development; wage and salary plans; personnel policies; development of personnel policies consistent with government regulations.
Students must choose 18 credit hours among any 300- or 400-level courses from AACSB-accredited programs with the following prefixes: ACC, BIS, ENTP, FIN, HRM, MGT, MKT, and SPB.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Legal and administrative framework for labor management relations; role of the courts; the NLRB and other administrative agencies, decisions, and procedures.
HRM 300: Introduction to Labor-Management Relations
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Development, structure, and process of American labor relations; evolution and origins of labor unions, internal and external responses to their environment, major legislative and judicial decisions affecting labor management relations, and the collective bargaining process; current and anticipated developments.
HRM 396: Human Resource Management Internship
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours:1-3
Application of theoretical knowledge in solving business problems through consulting and counseling with business owners; group work in case analysis and problem solving.
MGT 330: Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
The skills, knowledge and abilities to negotiate effectively with others are important to managers and employees in all types of organizations; business, governmental, non-profit, healthcare and professional. The purpose of this course is to provide students with the theory, tactics, and practices that will enable them to negotiate successfully and resolve conflicts. Core subjects include negotiation preparation; distributive and integrative bargaining; strategies and tactics; gaining leverage through power and persuasion; and the influences of ethics, gender and culture. In addition to use of mediation and arbitration techniques to resolve conflicts are presented. The course requires students to learn through active participation in negotiation of actual cases.
Students must take 12 credit hours of free electives. Remember, some of these may have to be at the 300/400 level to reach the required 45 total hours of 300+ coursework for graduation.
Students must take 37 credit hours of general education courses, selected from the following categories. Note: Some general education courses may be part of the major/minor/focus requirements. If so, those courses may be used to count for both general education and the major/minor/focus.
- General Education Courses:
- Communication; Written (3 credits)
- Communication; Written II (3 credits)
- Communication; Oral (3 credits)
- Scientific and Quantitative Inquiry
- Mathematics and Statistics (3 credits)
- Scientific and Quantitative Inquiry
- Natural Sciences with lab (4 credits)
- Scientific and Quantitative Inquiry
- Natural Sciences without lab (3 credits)
- Self and Society
- Cultural Pluralism (3 credits)
- Self and Society
- Individual and Society (3 credits)
- Self and Society
- Individual and Society (3 credits)
- Culture and Creativity (3 credits)
- Culture and Creativity (3 credits)
- Global Viewpoints (3 credits)
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