Master of Industrial Relations and Human Resources (MIRHR)

• Each student's program of courses must be approved by the Coordinator of Graduate Studies. If chosen courses appear to overlap to a large degree, approval may be denied.

• Students must have a mid-B average overall to be recommended for the degree.

• Failure in any course (that is, a grade of less than B–) will require a review of the student's program by the department.

• A student who fails two or more courses is no longer in good academic standing and a recommendation for termination will be made to the School of Graduate Studies.

Year 1: Foundation Courses
 

• Year 1 is spent acquiring a foundation in industrial relations and human resources and includes courses in economics, human resources management, law, quantitative methods, and organizational behaviour. Courses marked (PR) require prerequisites; further information may be obtained from CIRHR.

• Students must take 4.0 full-course equivalents (FCEs), of which 3.5 are required courses, as follows:
   

  • IRE1002H Applied Statistics in Industrial Relations

  • IRE1010H Economic Foundations of Industrial Relations and Human Resources

  • IRE1126H Economics of Labour and Human Resources (PR)

  • IRE1362H Organizational Behaviour

  • IRE1609H Strategic Human Resources Management (exclusion: RSM2609H Aligning People and Strategy)

  • IRE1610H Industrial Relations

  • plus one of the following law courses:
     

    • IRE1270H Law of Labour Relations

    • IRE1338H Law in the Workplace.
       

• 0.5 FCE is an elective course that is chosen from the list below to fill the requisite 4.0 FCEs in Year 1 of the program.

• Students in the MIRHR program are required to achieve a mid-B average in Year 1 of the program (or in the first 4.0 FCEs) in order to continue or to pass into Year 2.
   

Year 2: Core Courses
 

• Students must take 4.0 FCEs to complete Year 2. This includes core courses in Industrial Relations and Human Resources (1.5 FCEs):
   

  • IRE2001H Foundations and Current Issues in Industrial Relations and Human Resources

  • IRE2002H Research Methods for Industrial Relations and Human Resources (PR)
     

  • plus one of the following courses:
     

    • IRE2003H Research Project in Industrial Relations and Human Resources (PR)

    • IRE2004H Data Analytics and Metrics in Industrial Relations and Human Resources (PR).
       

• 2.5 FCEs are elective courses that are chosen from the list below to fill the requisite 4.0 FCEs in Year 2 of the program.

• Applicants are admitted under the General Regulations of the School of Graduate Studies. Applicants must also satisfy the CIRHR additional admission requirements stated below.

• Applicants to the two-year MIRHR program require an appropriate bachelor's degree from a recognized university. A minimum grade average of B+ in each of the final two years of the degree is required.

• All applicants are encouraged to submit results from the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) or the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). Although these tests are not required and there is no minimum score requirement, this information is helpful to the admissions committee. Test results more than five years old are normally not considered.

• Applicants whose primary language is not English and who graduated from a university where the language of instruction and examination was not English must write the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). The following minimum scores are acceptable:
   

  • paper-based TOEFL exam: 600 and 5 on the Test of Written English (TWE)

  • Internet-based TOEFL exam: 100/120 and 22/30 on the writing and speaking sections

  • IELTS overall score of 7.0, with at least 6.5 for each component.
     

• Since space in the program is limited, all applicants who meet the minimum admission requirements cannot be guaranteed admission. The CIRHR admissions committee reserves the right to select qualified applicants to the program. All admission decisions are final.

The tuition fees for Master of Industrial Relations and Human Resources (MIRHR) may vary from $40,000 to $60,000 annually for tuition fees. The fee's prices may get higher for International Students.