Students choose our high ranking multidisciplinary Master of Employment Relations (MER) program to study employment relations from two different but related disciplines - humanities and social sciences and business.

• Our MER program allows students to become specialists in the area of Employment Relations.
• Our MER program was ranked fifth in Canada and 38th in North America in the 2019 Eduniversal Best Master’s Ranking by Eduniversal Observatory and published at www.best-masters.com.
• Our MER program is ranked in the category of top 200 best master’s in human resources management.
• Our MER graduates go on to careers in recruitment and selection, human resource managers roles, health and safety and labour relations advisor roles to name a few.
• Memorial is ranked among the top 15 universities in Canada in the broad field of business and economics (which includes business and management, accounting and finance, and economics and econometrics) and first in Canada for research quality in business and economics according to the 2026 Times Higher Education World University Rankings by subject.