Postgraduate nursing and midwifery programmes

Make it count with a masters
Nursing and midwifery students on a simulated ward practicing clinical skills with lecturers
Looking to change direction? Nursing and midwifery offers a varied, challenging and fulfilling career and can lead to a variety of roles within the NHS.
Our tailor-made pre-registration programmes provide students, who already have a relevant degree, with the opportunity to study nursing or midwifery at masters level. Our programmes provide an entry route to nurse or midwife registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council in the relevant health field.

  • "Pursue a new career direction

  • "Explore your interest in health

  • "2-3 year programmes

Our pre-registration programmes

Bethany, BSc (Hons) Nursing (Adult Health) student
MSc Pre-registration Nursing (Adult Health)
Adult nurses provide nursing care for adults of all ages with acute or long-term illness.
Child Nursing skills session. Nursing and midwifery facilities. 2 male nurses
MSc Pre-registration Nursing (Child Health)
Children’s or paediatric nurses care for new-borns through to adolescents with acute or long-term illnesses.
BSc (Hons) Nursing (Mental Health) students in group work (full bleed)
MSc Pre-registration Nursing (Mental Health)
Mental health nurses support a person’s recovery to gain increased control over their conditions to establish trusting and effective relationships.
Abbie Rich - Midwife at University Hospital Plymouth
MSc Midwifery (Pre-Registration)
This programme equips you with the skills, knowledge and professional insight needed to become a registered midwife.
Midwifery skills sessions. Nursing and midwifery facilities
MSc Midwifery (Pre-Registration) blended learning
The programme offers a flexible highly motivated approach to learning, suiting those who are looking to balance university life with other commitments.

Change career direction from nursing to midwifery

2 years, full-time
Our shortened midwifery programmes provides Registered Adult Nurses who already have a relevant degree with the opportunity to study midwifery at masters level. This degree will build on your skills and knowledge as a registered adult nurse to work as part of a multi-professional team and develop you into an autonomous registered midwife.
Child nursing students
What is blended learning?
Blended learning moves away from traditional lecture-based classroom teaching, instead immersing you in a variety of engaging online activities. Blended learning offers a flexible highly motivated approach to learning, suiting those who are looking to balance university life with other commitments. Asynchronous learning allows you to undertake theoretical study, when it is convenient for you, based around your weekly clinical placements and home-life commitments; putting you at the centre of your midwifery journey.

Start your career as a healthcare professional

Nursing students using an anatomage table
Providing you with hands-on clinical experience
Our contemporary facilities and equipment will maximise your potential and develop your core skills so you are ready to embark on an exciting and rewarding career.
Male nursing student
You may be eligible for a £5000 NHS training grant
The NHS Learning Support Fund provides additional funding for eligible healthcare students.
Nursing and midwifery facilities. 
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