Program Overview

MedTech Innovation & Entrepreneurship MSc

Key information

Study mode: Full time Duration: 1 year Credit value (UK/ECTS equivalent): 180 Application status: Open Start date: September 2025

Programme Description

The MSc in MedTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship brings together talented students and professionals from diverse backgrounds across the spectrum of health, engineering, design, business, and entrepreneurship, who are committed to creating innovation in health and making the world a healthier place. The programme builds on King’s and the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE)’s strengths across healthcare, health research, healthcare technologies, design, engineering, business, and entrepreneurship to teach both crucial business knowledge and the art and science of developing novel medical technologies that address an unmet clinical need.

Key Benefits

• The course is a unique combination of core entrepreneurship and innovation (i.e., ‘business’) content with dedicated health-care and MedTech content.
• Students will have hospital access through partnerships with the NHS, so students are able to immerse in real-world healthcare settings shadowing clinicians and other healthcare practitioners.
• The course is taught within the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE) which is dedicated to bringing MedTech innovations to market.
• The course is strongly connected into King’s industry networks and provides a practical route for students and participants to ideate, test, innovate, and develop their ideas and launch innovation projects or start-ups in the UK and around the world.
• Students will be offered an option to work on live-projects with the medical-technology industry in the UK, Europe, and around the globe.
• Students will gain insight into the latest business knowledge and practice for health innovation and entrepreneurship.
• The course offers a unique opportunity to learn from medical practitioners, industry professionals, innovators, entrepreneurs, and study across business and engineering schools at King’s College London.

Entry Requirements

UK Applicants

• Standard requirements: A minimum 2:1 undergraduate Bachelor’s (honours) degree
• Programme-Specific Requirements: Undergraduate degree with 2.1 honours required with evidence of modules in at least two of the following: Statistics, Management, Life Sciences, Health, Natural Mathematical and Engineering Sciences.

International Applicants

• Equivalent International qualifications: Select a country to view equivalent qualifications
• English language requirements: English language band B

Teaching & Structure

Teaching Methods

• Lectures
• Tutorials
• Face-to-face teaching complemented and supported with innovative technology

Assessment

• Coursework
• Individual or Group Projects
• Formative assessments (not-for-credit)

Structure

• Courses are divided into modules
• Students take modules totaling 180 credits

Required Modules

• MedTech innovation, ideation, design, and research methodologies (30 credits)
• Foundations of entrepreneurship and management I: Entrepreneurial strategy and growth (15 credits)
• Foundations of entrepreneurship and management II: Entrepreneurial finance & marketing (15 credits)
• Entrepreneurial Leadership (15 credits)
• Medical Technology Design and Development Pathways from Idea to Impact (15 credits)
• Project development (dissertation) (60 credits)

Optional Modules

• Quality Management Systems and Regulations (15 credits)
• Up to two optional Technology/Healthcare Modules (15 credits per module)

Careers

Employability

• Develop greater self-awareness of strengths, interests, and values
• Gain insight, make connections, and uncover opportunities
• Sharpen application skills for internships, placements, graduate schemes, and jobs
• Build an impressive portfolio of work relevant domain knowledge, leadership, workplace digital or technical skills
• Apply and hone skills in a real-world context

Fees & Funding

Tuition Fees

• UK: £16,950 per year (2025/26)
• International: £31,600 per year (2025/26)

Deposit

• Home deposit: £500
• International deposit: £2000

Additional Costs

• Books
• Library fees and fines
• Personal photocopies
• Printing course handouts
• Society membership fees
• Stationery
• Travel costs
• Graduation costs

Funding

• Bursaries
• Scholarships
• Grants
• Tuition fees
• Living expenses
• Student loans

Application Closing Date Guidance

• Overseas (international) fee status: 25 July 2025 (23:59 UK time)
• Home fee status: 25 August 2025 (23:59 UK time)