Program Overview

MSc Global Health

Overview

The MSc Global Health program is designed to develop your skills and knowledge in global health issues, whether you already work in the humanitarian sector or are looking to enter it.

Entry Requirements

• We require a Lower Second Class Bachelor's degree or the overseas equivalent, although each application is judged on its own merits and exceptions to this entry requirement may be made.
• Applicants who do not have a Bachelor's degree or the overseas equivalent may apply if they can demonstrate (via a personal statement) that they can communicate clearly, are highly motivated, and have experience of prior learning.

Course Options

| Full-time | Part-time | Full-time distance learning | Part-time distance learning
---|---|---|---|---
MSc | N | N | N | Y

Course Overview

• Study the worldwide improvement of health, reduction of disparities and protection against global threats.
• Cover topics such as emergency medicine, disaster management, community health, anthropology, and sociology of health and illness.
• Benefit from insights from the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), collaborators on the content of this course.
• Option to specialise in either Disaster Management, Humanitarian Response, or Emergency Medical Response.
• Both January and September intakes available.

Fees

• For entry in the academic year beginning September 2025, the tuition fees are as follows:
  • MSc (part-time distance learning)
    • UK students (per annum): £4,800
    • International, including EU, students (per annum): £9,333

Policy on Additional Costs

• All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme.
• Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application.

Scholarships/Sponsorships

• Each year, we offer a number of awards and subject-specific bursaries (the values of which are usually set at Home/EU fees level), open to both Home/EU and international students.
• The deadline for these is early February each year.

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• The University of Manchester is regulated by the Office for Students (OfS).
• The OfS aims to help students succeed in Higher Education by ensuring they receive excellent information and guidance, get high quality education that prepares them for the future and by protecting their interests.