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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2025/2026

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Year 1 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: September

Notes:
To achieve the Masters of Public Health you need 180 credits.

When studying on a part-time intermittent basis, you are free to choose between 0 and 60 credits each year and this determines the length of your studies. The minimum time you can take to achieve the MSc is 3 years and the maximum is 6 years. There are compulsory courses which need to be completed.

Students wishing to exit with a Postgraduate Certificate must complete all Certificate courses within 2 years. Students wishing to exit with a Postgraduate Diploma must complete all Diploma courses within 4 years.

All taught courses must be taken before the final Master's year. Please refer to the programme handbook for more specific progression criteria.

Some courses have pre-requisites. The programme team will be able to advise on this.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 60 credits in this group.

MPH (online) Core Y1

Select exactly 60 credits of the following courses
AND

Group B

Select exactly 60 credits in this group.

MPH (online) core Y2

Select exactly 30 credits of the following courses
AND

Group C

Select exactly 60 credits in this group.

MPH (online) Dissertation

Select exactly 60 credits of the following courses
OR

Student-Led Individually-Created Course (SLICC) - Health Sciences

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
AND

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