Human Resource Management and Labour Law

The degree programme

On the Human Resource degree programme, you will study strategic HR management, HR development, recruiting, HR process and data management, compensation management and workplace design at Master's level in the core modules. As part of the latest degree programme reform, numerous new HR-relevant areas such as diversity management, employee protection, occupational health management, change management and employer branding have also been added. In the area of practical skills, you will demonstrate and train how to conduct job interviews and annual appraisals, negotiate, use assessment procedures, conduct interviews in the context of personnel management, international and intercultural business behaviour, conduct job interviews in English and German, and give talks and presentations in virtual and real environments.

In labour law, you will deal with individual and collective labour law and in the third semester you will have the opportunity to deepen your knowledge of international HR law (secondment management, tax aspects of secondments, ...) and related legal issues such as employment of disabled persons, employee data protection, industrial property rights and criminal law aspects in HR. As an alternative to the legal specialisation, you can choose the specialisation in HR development and labour markets, in which you will implement in-company training measures and deal with the assessment and development of labour markets.

The language of the programme is German. However, there are some English-language modules in the third semester, during which you will also get to know international incoming students. In the fourth semester, we will broaden your horizons with an excursion that will give you an insight into HR management across national borders. The current focus is on the Baltic States and the neighbouring countries of Central and Eastern Europe. In addition, the last semester is primarily dedicated to your Master's thesis, during which we support you in the form of very well-organised Master classes.
70% of the lecturers on the Master's programme come from practice and 30% from academia.

Your path to us

If you are interested in studying HR and labour law, you will ideally have already gained experience in an HR department. This may have been several years or may have been gained quite recently in an internship. Newcomers from related fields such as internal communication, marketing or project management have also been able to gain a foothold in the industry with this degree programme. They usually switch to HR jobs during their studies.

Anyone who first thinks of a Human Resource Management degree programme in Vienna will be surprised at what a degree programme at our campus in Eisenstadt has to offer. The degree programme is part-time. The ideal number of hours for your professional activity is 30 hours per week for experienced professionals and 20-25 hours for newcomers. If you want to work full-time alongside your studies, we definitely recommend that you have previous experience of part-time study. The approximately 40 attendance weekends during the two-year programme take place on Fridays from 2 p.m. and Saturdays all day. For your orientation, you can take a look at the attendance dates under organisational form on this website. In addition, there are on average two online courses during the week from 17:45.

In general, the time structure of the degree programme is designed in such a way that you hardly have to take any holiday or compensatory time off for the attendance or online phases. Nevertheless, you should give this study project the space it deserves in your life.
If you are interested in the Master's degree programme in Human Resource Management and Labour Law and would like to integrate this challenging study programme into your everyday life, please send in your application by 31 May. For an earlier admission decision, please apply by 31 March. We issue the first admissions at the beginning of April.
You can also take the opportunity to take part in one of the online counselling sessions listed below.