Among the leading graduate programs of industrial relations, the MAIR program provides a challenging and rich educational experience for students pursuing careers in human resource management and labor-management relations. Emphasizing the development of professional competencies, the MAIR curriculum is designed to ensure that students master the requisite analytical and practical skills for attaining leadership positions in business, labor organizations, government, and not-for-profit organizations.

From an extensive offering of courses, students receive classroom training in human resource management (strategy, compensation, staffing, selection, training, work team systems and interested-based problem solving), union-management relations (contract negotiations, administration and arbitration, union organizations and union-management's joint decision-making), dispute resolution, labor market analysis, inter-national business and labor relations, and in employment and labor law.

Grounded in a long tradition of multidisciplinary study, the MAIR program exposes students to nationally and internationally recognized scholars and practitioners from labor relations, management, history, psychology, economics, political science, sociology and law. Bringing a wealth of professional and consulting experience to the classroom, instructors integrate cutting-edge research and theory and real case examples and exercises so that students learn about the most current workplace innovations and emerging trends and issues.