Master of Public Health

Entry requirements

We welcome applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds. You will have, or be predicted, at least a 2:2 Honours degree in a relevant subject such as Life, Health or Medical Science degrees, or intercalating medical students, with relevant public health work experience.

We will also welcome applications from people who can demonstrate evidence of significant Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) experience.

A personal statement, detailing your reasons for seeking to undertake this subject, will be required.

Entry requirements for international students

Please visit our entry requirements section for equivalencies from your country and further information on English language requirements.

Please visit our international equivalency pages to enable you to see if your existing academic qualifications meet our entry requirements.

International students are normally subject to visa regulations which prevent part-time study. It is recommended that international students apply for the level of the final award you intend to complete i.e. PGCert, PGDip or Masters, due to the associated cost and requirements for a Tier 4 student Visa.

Accreditation of prior learning for Masters courses in Healthcare and Medicine

Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) is a process whereby students, who have already gained relevant skills and knowledge prior to the start of their course, may be granted a partial credit exemption from their programme instead of unnecessarily repeating work. Find out more about APL

Months of entry

September

Course content

• Offered in collaboration with the University of Exeter Business School, the programme combines the expertise of our world-renowned public health experts with specialists in leadership and management and aims to deliver high quality, integrated, multi-disciplinary learning for leadership and problem-solving across the broad field of public health.
• This programme aims to equip you with the competencies and capabilities to assess, analyse and take action against disease, prolong life and promote health. It addresses the broad issues that contribute to the health and well-being of individuals, families, communities, populations, and societies.
• We work closely with healthcare collaborators in the region, and across the globe, to ensure we are meeting the complex needs of a changing healthcare sector
• The programme has been developed with reference to the training requirements of the UK Faculty of Public Health, the credentialing requirements of CPH and meets the common core requirements of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) to maximise your future employability in the discipline of environment and human health sciences.
• This programme supports your development as a Public Health leader through phased engagement with both fundamental and more advanced concepts, in the context of the delivery of healthcare at team and system levels to understand organisational complexity and making change at large scale.
• The programme is delivered via blended learning. It offers a combination of in person and online teaching that provides exceptional flexibility for students. Modules include immersive, in-person learning at the start and end of the taught components of the programme. In most of the remaining core modules, students can attend some or all of the face to face lectures and workshops either in person or online.

Public health is everyone’s business, now more than ever. In these rapidly changing times, where knowledge is created at speed and new health challenges are always on the horizon, visionary public health leadership is urgently needed. This programme aims to equip you with the competencies and capabilities to become one of those future leaders.

Informed by the increasing importance of a systems approach to health and social care, the programme examines distributive leadership and the need to develop compassionate and inclusive leadership attributes, making change through the use of quality improvement methodologies and the importance of collaboration and boundary spanning

This programme is internationally unique and focuses on moving from knowledge to action. One of the compulsory modules, Structuring and Solving Public Health Problems, focuses on how to ‘think in public health’, providing the foundation for the rest of your study and is the only public health module of its kind in the UK.

Information for international students

International students need to show they have the required level of English language to study this course. The required test scores for this course fall under Profile B2. Please visit our English language requirements page to view the required test scores and equivalencies from your country.

Fees and funding

We invest heavily in scholarships for talented prospective Masters students. This is in addition to the UK Government’s Postgraduate Loan Scheme. For information on how you can fund your postgraduate degree at the University of Exeter, please visit the postgraduate study pages on our website.