Program Overview

Labor and Employment Relations Program

The School of Management and Labor Relations creates and disseminates knowledge about issues related to work, workers, and the employment relationship. The major aims to provide students with an opportunity to learn more about the nature of work, the management of work, the problems of working people, and what workers have done, both individually and collectively, to address those problems.

Potential Career Paths

The Labor and Employment Relations major is a multidisciplinary field that is designed to prepare students for a wide variety of careers, including those in:

• employment relations
• state and federal government agencies
• human resource management
• organizational management
• business and finance
• marketing and outreach
• social and community organizing among others. The skills attained with this degree are relevant in all types of organizations; large and small, private and public, for-profit and non-profit.

Admissions Requirements

Students with an associate’s degree from an accredited community college are eligible to apply to the Labor Studies program.

Transferring Credits

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey will transfer a maximum of 60 credits or one-half of the total degree credits required for a baccalaureate degree from a NJ county college to a Rutgers degree program for those students who have completed an A.A. or A.S. degree. Students may be awarded up to 90 credits from a 4-year institution.