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Management in Health and Social Care
MSc or PGDip or PGCert
Key facts
Start dates
January 2022 / September 2022 / January 2023 / September 2023
Course length
Full time: MSc: 12 months, PGDip: 12 months
Part time: MSc: normally 3 years, PGDip: 12-18 months, PGCert: 12 months
Overview
The MSc Management in Health and Social Care has been developed to meet the needs of those currently working, or aspiring to work in the Health and Care sectors. It takes into account the changing nature of health and care delivery, in the UK and globally, drawing from experiences and new insights emerging from the COVID pandemic.
We will help you to:
- Develop the skills of a reflective leader and learner, raising your self-awareness and enhancing your self-belief.
- Identify needs and tools to improve, innovate and transform services.
- Broaden your knowledge of how people and organisations behave within different policy and political contexts.
- Select ways to enhance the management and performance of human and financial resources.
- Enhance your research and project management skills.
- Apply the latest research and theory to inform and enhance your leadership, management and organisational practice.
How to apply
Entry requirements
Specific entry requirements
You must have:
- a UK BSc/BA degree, or equivalent learning experience, from a recognised international institution, or a professional qualification
If you do not hold a UK BSc/BA degree or equivalent overseas degree from a recognised institution, you should contact the Admissions Office for further information.
Please also see the University's general entry requirements.
English requirements for visas
If you need a student visa to enter the UK you will need to meet the UK Visas and Immigration minimum language requirements as well as the University's requirements. Find out more about English language requirements.
Pathways courses for international and EU students
We offer a range of courses to help you meet the entry requirements for your postgraduate course and also familiarise you with university life in the UK.
Take a Pre-Master's course to develop your subject knowledge, study skills and academic language level in preparation for your master's course.
If you need to improve your English language, we offer pre-sessional English language courses to help you meet the English language requirements of your chosen master’s course.
Terms and Conditions of Enrolment
When you accept our offer, you agree to the Terms and Conditions of Enrolment. You should therefore read those conditions before accepting the offer.
Application process
Tuition fees
Please see the fees note
Questions about fees?
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Tuition fees
2021 / 22
Home (UK) full time
£1,060 per single module
Home (UK) part time
£1,060 per single module
International / EU full time
£14,900
International / EU part-time
£1,660 per single module
2022 / 23
Home (UK) full time
£1,080 per single module
Home (UK) part time
£1,080 per single module
International / EU full time
£15,200
International / EU part-time
£1,690 per single module
Fees quoted are for the first year only. If you are studying a course that lasts longer than one year your fees will increase each year.
Financial support and scholarships
For general sources of financial support, see our Fees and funding pages.
Additional costs
Please be aware that some courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees. Specific additional costs for this course, if any, are detailed below.
Learning and assessment
You will gain an understanding of changes and developments in health and social care policy. The operational environment at local, national and international levels will also be covered.
The course will enable you to:
- build your knowledge of the core functions of management and leadership
- examine policy and strategy in a variety of health and social care settings
- develop and apply leadership capability
- gain and apply research skills
- expand your networks.
Start this course in January
You have the option to start this course in January. You will study a range of modules between January and May. During the summer months of June, July and August you will study further modules and begin work on your dissertation. Between September and December you will complete your final modules and focus on your dissertation.
Study modules
The modules listed below are for the master's award. For the PGDip and PGCert awards your module choices may be different. Please contact us for more details.
Please note: As our courses are reviewed regularly as part of our quality assurance framework, the modules you can choose from may vary from that shown here. The structure of the course may also mean some modules are not available to you.
Learning and teaching
You will learn through the following methods:
- lectures
- seminars
- learning sets
- blended and online learning.
Each module amounts to about 200 hours of study time. This is delivered through morning and afternoon sessions and online learning activities.
You can tailor your learning to cover topics suited to your professional development needs, through the course's flexible structure.
You will maximise benefits to your professional role through the use of real workplace issues, adding value to assignments. You can then apply your learning and evidence-based management to your organisation.
Research
Our academic staff have a significant record of research and publications on the topics of management and leadership.
The Professional Education and Leadership course team have research and publication interests in the following fields:
- coaching and mentoring
- inter-professional and work-based learning
- quality improvement.
After you graduate
Career prospects
This course can help if:
- You want to move into a management / leadership role in clinical, social care or community healthcare settings.
- You are a practising manager or leader at any level wanting to draw from a stronger research and theory base to enhance the way you work.
- You need a management/ leadership qualification to enhance your professional profile and CV.
- You have a management background and wish to orientate your practice toward provision in the health /social care sectors.
Our Staff
Professor Emidia Vagnoni
Read more about EmidiaProgramme Changes: On rare occasions we may need to make changes to our course programmes after they have been published on the website.
For more information, please visit our Changes to programmes page.