Study Masters (MSc) in Public Health in the UK
Public health is a crucial issue in every society and the worldwide public health crisis caused for world-class trained Public Health professionals. If you are passionate about improving the quality of people’s lives, then a career in public health is an opportunity for you to make a real difference to the health and wellbeing of human beings. Our course qualifies you to work as a public health practitioner and is designed to give you a solid body of both theoretical and practical knowledge and skills, which will help you make a seamless transition into the workplace.
Course Overview
The course provides an excellent, wide-breadth training in public health as both an academic and professional discipline. Its curriculum is clearly nested in the most orthodox understanding of what modern public health does providing a solid foundation for both students who want to drive their careers towards public health and those who want to utilise their training in the current professions.
You will learn how people’s health can be affected by their cultural, social and economic circumstances, lifestyle, and environment, as well as covering methods of controlling disease and promoting health. You will also explore the economic, legal and ethical aspects of public health.
What will you gain?
On completion of this programme you will be able to:
- Critically analyse and appraise good practice in the management of public health and health improvement
- Select appropriate approaches to investigate public health needs and interventions in complex situations.
- Reflect on their own practice and select from a range of options best mechanism to influence others to achieve best practice
- Critical appraise national, community and individual public health concerns and influences.
- Identify, reflect and critically analyse ethical challenges in public health and public health practice.
- Consider and evaluate the role of partnership within and external to an organisation to affect public health improvement
- Critically evaluate the results of an academic investigation and be able to extract and analyse data using a range of techniques appropriate to their chosen fields.
- Appropriately plan, undertake and synthesise research in public health and disseminate findings to benefit the population
Entry Requirements
Our entry requirements provide a guide to the qualifications that you’ll need to study our courses. We understand that recent changes to exams and assessments mean you might be worried about your qualifications, so we’re taking a flexible approach to admissions this year. We’ll do our best to consider your application on an individual basis and look at more than your grades when we’re making a decision.
UK/EU and international students are eligible to apply for this course.
UK/EU Students
- We welcome applications from graduates with a 2:2 honours degree, or equivalent qualification, in an appropriate subject such as Medicine, Nursing, Psychology, Statistics, Dentistry, Biomedical Sciences and Biosciences degrees. Other degrees with sciences and/or a statistics component will also be considered
- We also welcome applications from candidates with a minimum of three years’ work experience in public health-related senior positions.
- Evidence of significant study during the last five years is required
International Students
- We welcome applications from graduates with a 2:2 honours degree, or equivalent qualification, in an appropriate subject such as Medicine, Nursing, Psychology, Statistics, Dentistry, Biomedical Sciences and Biosciences degrees. Other degrees with sciences and/or a statistics component will also be considered
- We also welcome applications from candidates with a minimum of three years’ work experience in public health-related senior positions.
- Evidence of significant study during the last five years is required.
Visas and immigration
You will not need a visa to study in the UK if you are a citizen of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland. If you are a national of any other country you may need a visa to study in the UK.
English language requirements for international students
You must have competence in the English language to study with us. The most commonly accepted evidence of English language ability is IELTS 7.0 (with a minimum 6.5 in all four components).
Fees & Scholarships
The fees below refer to the 2020/21 academic year unless otherwise stated.
UK/EU students*
Full-time students: £ 9,500 per year
International students*
Full-time students: £ 14,500 per year
*Course fees are subject to annual inflation so the total costs for part-time study are shown here as a guide.
Careers & Job Prospects
Our typical MSc Applied Public Health cohort is formed by a 50% of health professionals (medical doctors, nurses, midwives and dentists) with the other 50% populated by a varied array of professionals (bio-scientists and biomedical scientists, psychologists, sociologists, graduates in public health and so on).
Our graduates with a health care/medical background tend to use the program for internal promotion. Other graduates access to public health positions in Local Health Authorities, National and International NGOs and their home-countries Departments of Health (and related structures) in different roles of public health intelligence.
