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Healthcare (Top-up), BSc (Hons), University of West London

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University of West London

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About Healthcare (Top-up), BSc (Hons) - at University of West London

Course summary

Overview
This course is ideal for you if you hold a  foundation degree or diploma in:

  • Health and Social Care
  • Medical Laboratory Technology
  • Physician Assistantship
  • Dental Nursing
  • other Life Science and Healthcare related subjects

and wish to convert your diploma to an honours degree.

Why choose this course?
The course will help you develop a systematic understanding of health and healthcare, including a coherent and detailed knowledge of physiology, and the management of related pathologies. You will also develop the ability to proactively use knowledge and deploy established techniques of analysis and enquiry to meet the challenges of a changing healthcare environment.

Depending on the academic credit associated with your Foundation Degree/Diploma, you will enter the second or final year of the course.

Career and study progression
Your degree can take you anywhere, but some of the most popular career paths for graduates are working as a lead healthcare practitioner or a research assistant.

You may also wish to undertake postgraduate study to specialise in a subject you've already studied, or to explore something new.

For more details please see the Career and study progression section.

Other options available for BSc (Hons) Healthcare (Top-up)

  • Full time - September 2017, Brentford site

Fees

Fees for home and EU students

Main feeFees for our 2018 courses have not yet been released.

Funding

Help with funding is available to a range of students, whether you are studying full or part-time, in your home country or overseas.

You may be eligible for a student loan to cover the cost of tuition fees or a maintenance loan to support you during your studies. Additional funding is available to some types of students, such as those with dependants, disabled students and more. Find out more about applying for student loans and other funding options.

We also offer a range of scholarships and bursaries to help you. Current scholarships include:

  • Full Time Undergraduate Bursary: a £3,000 award for new undergraduate students.
  • Path to Success Scholarship: a £4,000 award for students on a four-year degree course with a foundation year. 

Other scholarships are also available, including awards for specific subjects. Find out more and check your eligibility for the scholarships and bursaries listed above.

Please note fees are paid for each year of study unless otherwise stated. You will be required to re-enrol and pay fees at the beginning of each academic year. Fees may be subject to government regulations on fee increases. Future inflationary increases will be applied to each subsequent year of the course, subject to government regulations on fee increases.

Entry requirements

Entry requirements

You must have:

  • 120 Credits or equivalent at Level 4 or 5 respectively for 2 year or 1 year course.
  • You must be successful at interview.

International students need to meet our English language requirement at either IELTS at 6.0 or above and a minimum of 5.5 for each of the 4 individual components (Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening).

In some countries where teaching is in English, we may accept local qualifications. Please visit http://www.uwl.ac.uk/international/your-country to check for local equivalencies.

We offer pre-sessional English language courses if you do not meet these requirements. Find out more about our English Language courses

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