A UK 2:1 honours degree, or its international equivalent, and a nursing qualification.
We may also consider your application if you have other qualifications or experience; please contact us to check before you apply.
For 2020 entry we accept the following English language qualifications at the grades specified*:
IELTS: total 6.5 (at least 6.0 in each module)
TOEFL-iBT (including Special Home Edition): total 92 (at least 20 in each module). We do not accept TOEFL MyBest Score to meet our English language requirements.
PTE Academic: total 61 (at least 56 in each of the "Communicative Skills" sections)
CAE and CPE: total 176 (at least 169 in each module)
Trinity ISE: ISE II with distinctions in all four components
We also accept a degree that has been taught and assessed in English from a university on our list of approved universities in non-majority English speaking countries.
If you are not a national of a majority English speaking country, then your degree must be no more than three and a half years old at the beginning of your programme of study.
*(Revised 21 February 2020 to remove PTE Academic from 2021 entry requirements. Revised 21 April 2020 to include TOEFL-iBT Special Home Edition in 2020 and 2021 entry requirements.)
Your English language qualification must be no more than three and a half years old from the start date of the programme you are applying to study, unless you are using IELTS, TOEFL, PTE Academic or Trinity ISE, in which case it must be no more than two years old.
This innovative programme offers advanced study for nurses working within a global context to enhance practice at the local level. Students can either choose a specific pathway: leadership, clinical research* or education, or follow a flexible generic programme with the opportunity to study a range of relevant courses from across the School of Health in Social Science and the wider university. Nursing, health and social care research underpins the whole programme.
Students will all begin the MSc at the same entry point, but depending on the pathway they would like to undertake, have the opportunity to exit with a range of different degree titles:
MSc Advanced Nursing
MSc Advanced Nursing (Leadership)
MSc Advanced Nursing (Education)
MSc Advanced Nursing (Clinical Research)
The programme is suitable for nurses who are registered in any branch of the profession to practice in their own country and who want to critically examine the ways that evidence-based research, theory and knowledge can advance nursing in the global context. The degree also provides an excellent foundation for postgraduate research e.g. a doctoral degree, or to advance their professional career.
*The clinical research pathway is only available for students who are registered with the Nursing Midwifery Council in the UK to practice in a clinical setting.
Teaching is delivered in a range of engaging and interactive formats by academic and specialist staff working in the contemporary health care environment. Teaching methods include lectures, seminars, workshops and tutor-led online learning environments.
Full-time MSc students take two core courses and one option course each semester. There is a choice of one of three different dissertations – empirical, research proposal or e-portfolio - to be completed during the third semester.
Students can follow one of three different pathways: leadership, education or clinical research, or can take a generic pathway, depending on career aspirations and areas of interest.
Part-time students choose one or two courses each semester and have a choice of dissertation in their final year. They can also follow the three different pathways or take a generic pathway.
The compulsory courses form the core part of the MSc and are:
Nursing and Global Health Policy: developing your political leadership
Designing research in Nursing, health and social care
Students can then choose 4 optional taught courses before they go on to undertake the dissertation. Optional courses can be chosen from those on offer within the School of Health in Social Science or across the wider university and are dependent on the pathway that the student chooses. Optional courses vary across years depending on the specific courses on offer, but some of the current optional courses include:
Leadership – exploring your potential (distance)
Global Public Health: a critical approach to health improvement
Conducting Research in Nursing, health and social care
Health Research Methods Workshops
Homeless and Inclusion Health
Supervised Reading
Critical Care Nursing
Issues and Developments in the Management of Pain
Contemporary Issues in Mental Health: engaging through the arts, humanities and social science
This programme is suitable for nurses looking to advance into senior clinical, educational, leadership, teaching and policy roles within the healthcare service, the independent sector, academia, a professional organisation or the voluntary sector. Recent graduates are now working in a range of nursing, teaching and social care roles in the UK and overseas, and have secured promoted posts.
