Hello
Guest

Sponsored Links


Topic: Postgrad question/help  (Read 1952 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

  • *
  • Posts: 3

  • Liked: 0
  • Joined: Aug 2007
Postgrad question/help
« on: August 31, 2007, 08:27:11 PM »
Hello,

I am new here, have been looking around this forum for about a week or two.  I am planning on attending grad school next september in the UK. Right now, I am just in the planning stages. I am in living in the US and looking for the right university, which I have found is hard to do!! I have a BA in English, have been working at a university for about 4 years. I would like to get my masters in Human Resource Management.  I didn't graduate from a "top tier school" or anything like that, just a state school in Pennsylvania and therefore I would not be looking at any prestigious school in the UK like Cambridge or Oxford. I would just like to find a good school that my masters degree would be recognized in the US, and to be located in a city or outside of one. I will be financing this on my own and I really didnt want to spend $30000 on tuition alone.
Can anyone suggest any universities? I have been looking on the web for over two months and I guess now I am just looking for other peoples' input! Any help would be greatly appreciated!!


  • *
  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 26886

  • Liked: 3600
  • Joined: Jan 2007
Re: Postgrad question/help
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2007, 09:00:03 PM »
Welcome to UK-Y :).

I don't know all that much about Human Resource Managment as a masters degree, but after a quick internet search, it seems that quite a few UK universities offer it as a postgraduate degree.

The problem in terms of fees is that it doesn't really matter whether you go to a top university like Oxford or Cambridge, or if you attend a less well-known school - the fees are all basically the same (give or take a couple of thousand dollars). A UK undergraduate student at Oxford will pay the same fees as an undergraduate at just about any other university in the country. Master's degrees are slightly different in that the course cost can vary by subject and university, but that doesn't necessarily mean that Oxford and Cambridge are the most expensive (for example, one top university may offer an MSc at $6,000 per year but another generally less good school may offer the same subject for $15,000 per year).

Unfortunately, as an international student you'll be looking at paying somewhere between $15,000-$30,000 for a 1-year masters degree and there's not really any way to get around this (unless you can get funding or a good US student loan). You can only qualify for home-student fees is if you've been living in the UK for at least 3 years prior to starting the course :(.

I hope this helps a little - good luck with your planning :)


  • *
  • Posts: 3

  • Liked: 0
  • Joined: Aug 2007
Re: Postgrad question/help
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2007, 09:19:31 PM »
Thanks for the quick reply.  As an international student I did figure that I would be taking out a loan for at least $40,000 which is fine because the degree is only for a year.  The reason why I mentioned that I wouldn't apply to oxford or cambridge is primarily because I don't think that I would be accepted, and I am OK with that. 
So, if anyone has attended a university for a masters course and they like the school, please let me know!! Thanks!


  • *
  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 26886

  • Liked: 3600
  • Joined: Jan 2007
Re: Postgrad question/help
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2007, 09:48:41 PM »
Thanks for the quick reply.  As an international student I did figure that I would be taking out a loan for at least $40,000 which is fine because the degree is only for a year.  The reason why I mentioned that I wouldn't apply to oxford or cambridge is primarily because I don't think that I would be accepted, and I am OK with that. 
So, if anyone has attended a university for a masters course and they like the school, please let me know!! Thanks!

No problem :). I mentioned Oxbridge a lot because I know that US universities do have different tuition costs depending on quality of school and I wasn't sure if you knew that that wasn't necessarily the case here.

I am currently a master's student here, but I'm in the Earth Sciences and Physics areas and I'm also British, so my experience is likely to be different compared to a course in a management area. I'm a student at Bristol University, which is a really nice (non-campus) university (but I may be biased because Bristol is my hometown), although I don't think HR Management is offered here. Also, my master's is research-based so I spend all my time sitting in front of a computer in an office rather than going to classes so I can't really help on the classes/homework/workload front ::).


Re: Postgrad question/help
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2007, 12:10:06 AM »
I'm a sussex grad, and I loved everything about the time I spent there, the people, the staff, the campus, the curriculum, the library :D and Brighton :)
I did a combined BSc/MSc so I didn't pay fees for my MSc (and sometimes forget i even did that extra year :) ) heh heh, but I would really recommend it :)

I did a quick search for you on findamasters.com and it came up with a few results :) I don't know anything about HR Managment so you'd probably be better off looking yourself, but maybe the link will help :) good luck!!!!
http://www.findamasters.com/search/dosearch.asp?location=any&subjects=any&keyword=Human+Resource+&cour_type=any&cour_start=any&gosearch.x=0&gosearch.y=0



  • *
  • Posts: 3

  • Liked: 0
  • Joined: Aug 2007
Re: Postgrad question/help
« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2007, 05:21:26 PM »
Thanks for that great link! I guess its just really hard for me to narrow down a school or schools to apply to. I don't want to make a mistake.  I have found a forum that discusses UK universities and it seems that every time I think that I found a school that would be suitable, I read on these forums that they are not.  And I realize that much of this comes down to someone's opinion, but it is very discouraging. 


Sponsored Links





 

coloured_drab