Master of Human Resources, Leadership, and Religious Studies

The Master of Human Resources, Leadership, and Religious Studies (M.H.R.L.R.S.) program prepares future organizational leaders, human resource professionals, and values-driven administrators to lead people, manage workplace systems, and support faith-based or mission-focused institutions with professional competence, ethical judgment, and compassionate leadership.

This interdisciplinary graduate program brings together advanced study in human resource management, organizational leadership, employment law, employee relations, talent development, workplace culture, and religious ethics. Students explore how effective leadership and HR practices can be guided by moral responsibility, spiritual values, interfaith understanding, and respect for human dignity in diverse and multicultural workplaces.

Through the program, students develop the skills needed to lead workforce planning, manage change, support employee engagement, resolve workplace challenges, and strengthen organizational well-being. They also examine how religious and ethical traditions can inform leadership decisions, governance, diversity management, conflict resolution, and service-oriented organizational practice.

Students may choose a faith focus area to connect their studies with their own religious tradition. This allows them to apply faith-informed perspectives to human resource leadership, workplace ethics, organizational justice, employee care, and responsible decision-making in both faith-based and secular professional environments.

Overview

This program is offered 100% online (optional), anytime and anywhere, complete you studies from the comfort of your home. All intensive courses are completed 100% online (optional) with a one month format courses.

Students can enroll any day of the week in one-month-intensive-courses and the course ends within 30 days from the enrollment date.

All intensive courses contains reading content and a final exam or a final research based paper.

Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the Master of Human Resources, Leadership, and Religious Studies (M.H.R.L.R.S.) program will be able to:

  1. Lead human resource departments, leadership teams, and organizational initiatives with integrity, strategic vision, ethical accountability, and compassionate decision-making.
  2. Apply advanced human resource management, organizational leadership, employment relations, and policy frameworks within diverse religious, ethical, and multicultural contexts.
  3. Manage workforce planning, employee relations, talent development, performance systems, and organizational culture with professionalism, fairness, cultural awareness, and respect for human dignity.
  4. Communicate effectively across multidisciplinary teams, executive leadership structures, faith-based organizations, and diverse workplace communities.
  5. Design, implement, and evaluate sustainable human capital and leadership strategies that align with ethical principles, spiritual values, organizational mission, and employee well-being.
  6. Integrate religious ethics and interfaith understanding into leadership practice, workplace governance, conflict resolution, and responsible human resource decision-making.

Transfer Credits to Exodus University

Exodus University is dedicated to saving you time and money by providing easy and fair transfer evaluation for eligible course credit.

Students can transfer to Exodus University up to 75% of credits into a Masters degree for courses with a grade of C- or higher are generally transferrable.

Admission Requirements

For admission, students are required to:

  1. Complete the online Application at this link;
  2. Submit a copy of the High School Diploma with the Application; and,
  3. Agree with the Terms of  Exodus University.

Featured Courses

 

General Courses (Choose any 6 – minimum)CreditsNumber
The Role of Human Resources3MHRL 101
Developing and Implementing Strategic HRM Plans3MHRL 102
Diversity and Multiculturalism3MHRL 103
Recruitment3MHRL 104
Selection3MHRL 105
Compensation and Benefits3MHRL 106
Retention and Motivation3MHRL 107
Training and Development3MHRL 108
Successful Employee Communication3MHRL 109
Managing Employee Performance3MHRL 110
Employee Assessment3MHRL 111
Safety and Health at Work3MHRL 112
Religious Courses (Choose any 4 – minimum)CreditsNumber
Introduction to the Bible3BIBL 301
Introduction to Theology3THEO 302
Biblical Theology3THEO 303
Biblical Foundation of Ethics3ETHC 304
Christian Apologetics3PHIL 305
Old Testament3BIBL 306
New Testament3BIBL 307
Pentateuch3BIBL 308
The Fall3THEO 309
Soteriology3THEO 310
Hermeneutics3THEO 311
Missiology3MISS 312
World Religions3RELI 313
Christianity3RELI 314
Hinduism3RELI 315
Islam3RELI 316
Sikhism3RELI 317

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