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MSc

Public Health

The MSc Public Health creates professionals who can advocate, enable and mediate change in public health across the world stage.

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Key Course Details

  • Start Date

    September

  • Location

    Pontypridd

  • Campus Code

    A

Fees

  • Home students

    £10,800*

  • International students

    £16,900*

  • Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits.

  • Start Date

    September

  • Location

    Pontypridd

  • Campus Code

    A

Fees

  • Home students

    £1,200*

  • Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits.
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The Public Health Masters recognises that health challenges can be more global than a single country’s population, but that local policy and regulation responses will vary from country to country.

DESIGNED FOR

This course supports the development of public health practitioners by enabling them to negotiate, plan, implement and evaluate policy and practice initiatives.

Career Paths

  • Public Health Practitioner

Skills Taught

  • Leadership
  • Research
  • Planning

Module Overview

The Public Health course is structured through the academic year, and students can start the course in either September or February. The majority of modules have seven to eight weeks of teaching one day a week, with assessments to complete after the teaching has concluded. You will need to study eight modules (totalling 180 credits) to achieve the MSc Public Health. Students choose one optional route with two optional modules depending on the area of interest.

  • Sustainable Public Health
  • Research Methods and Evidence Based Public Health
  • Protecting Health in Diverse Environments
  • Leading Change
  • Epidemiology and Biostatistics
  • Public Health Project

You will also choose one optional route from this list, and your award will still be for an ‘MSc Public Health’ regardless of your optional module choice.

  • Option route 1 (Health Promotion): Health promotion and international family health
  • Option route 2 (Public Health): Health promotion and Governance and Economics for Public Health
  • Option route 3 (Disaster healthcare): Planning for Disasters and Humanitarian Emergencies and Health, disasters, and humanitarian emergencies. This option is only available for February entry students, or part-time students.

Course Highlights

How you’ll learn

The MSc Public Health course will be delivered using a blended learning approach, predominately using interactive lectures that integrate a wide variety of learning formats.

Each module is assessed at the end of the module using two pieces of assessment. All modules are assessed using a range of methods, and usually have one coursework element and one practical or exam element.

Teaching staff

  • Dr Nova Corcoran, (course leader)
  • Dr Joseph Sunday
  • Teresa Filipponi
  • Dr Anne-Marie Coll
  • Precious O'Driscoll

We also have five casual lecturers who are working in Public Health Practice who are part of our module teams.

Careers and Employability

Graduate careers

Graduates could progress to a postgraduate research and pursue a career in research or academia. We welcome applications from self-funded students for postgraduate research degrees, including Masters by Research and PhD, in a range of topics around public health.

Possible career paths

This Public Health course opens up a variety of employment opportunities in the UK and internationally, and across the public and voluntary sectors, e.g, in schools, colleges and universities, advocacy organisations, international non-government organisations, consulting firms, local and national government organisations, health delivery organisations and community development organisations.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Typical qualification requirements:

As Public health is a multidisciplinary course, we accept a wide range of undergraduate degrees onto our MSc Public Health with a minimum entry criteria of a 2.2. In addition, applicants require a minimum of one year relevant work experience. In your personal statement, we therefore expect you to show a strong interest in Public Health, and to describe any relevant work experience you have in the health field. This might include current or past employment, voluntary work experience, undergraduate research projects or internships.

 

 

International applications welcomed:

We welcome international applications with equivalent qualifications of our entry requirements. For more details related to your country of residence please view our dedicated country pages.

English language requirements

International applicants whose first language is not English require a minimum IELTS score of 6.5 overall with a minimum of 6.5 in Writing and 5.5 in each component.

If you have previously studied through the medium of English IELTS might not be required, please visit our country specific page for further details. 

If you do not meet the English entry criteria please visit our Pre-Sessional course pages.

Contextual offers

We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended, for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer, and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.

USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.

 

We're here to help

Whether you a have a question about your course, fees and funding, the application process or anything else, there are plenty of ways you can get in touch, and we'd love to talk to you. You can contact our friendly admissions team by phone, email or chat to us online.

 

Fees and Funding

UK Full-time Fee

£10,800

per year*
UK Full-time Fee

£10,800

per year*
International Full-time Fee

£16,900

per year*
International Full-time Fee

£16,900

per year*
UK Part-time Fee

£1,200

per 20 credits*

Further Information

Studying at university is one of the most significant investments you'll ever make. Whilst you’re studying, you’ll have two main financial obligations – tuition fees and living costs. There’s lots of financial help available from the University of South Wales and external funding sources, that may provide loans (which have to be paid back) and grants, scholarships and bursaries (that don't).

*Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits. Once enrolled, the fee is anticipated to remain at the same rate throughout the duration of your study on this course except as described below.

Please be aware that we may increase the maximum fee for home students on full-time undergraduate courses only where the Welsh Government increases the permitted level of inflation of fees. Fees for all students (including part-time, postgraduate and international students) may be amended in accordance with our applicable Fees and Debt Management Policy.  We will ensure that students are given clear, intelligible, unambiguous and timely information about our courses and costs in good time, ahead of the next academic year.

 

Fees and Funding Scholarships and Busaries Alumni Discount

Additional Costs

 As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment. 

* Obligatory

University Quality Assurance

At USW, we regularly review our courses in response to changing patterns of employment and skills demand to ensure we offer learning designed to reflect today’s student needs and tomorrow’s employer demands.

If during a review process course content is significantly changed, we’ll write to inform you and talk you through the changes for the coming year. But whatever the outcome, we aim to equip our students with the skillset and the mindset to succeed whatever tomorrow may bring. Your future, future-proofed.

Studying at USW

Our courses are designed with industry leaders and provide the practical skills and experiences industry demands. Our flexible courses reflect the need for life-long learning. If you value education in practice, not just in theory, then USW is for you.

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How to apply

There is an online application process for this course. Please choose the application form for your preferred start date and mode of study (i.e. full-time or part-time).

International admissions

Please see our international admissions advice for further information about how to apply as a prospective international student.

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