Program Overview

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Medical Sciences (Final Year Entry)

BSc (Hons)

Overview

The BSc (Hons) Medical Sciences degree is designed for students with a BTEC National diploma Level 5 in Science. This final-year entry route allows students to join the department in the third year, ready to graduate with the same degree as students who came via the A-level route.

Course Details

Course Structure

This course will ground you in various medical aspects of the human body. You’ll be taught by a team of dedicated teaching staff who are committed to your success. Your course options include Evidence Based Medicine, Pathophysiology and Genomic Medicine, which are key in current areas of medical science and newly developing areas of medical science.

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods include:

• lectures
• practicals
• tutorials
• seminars

You will have the opportunity to attend seminars given by visiting speakers from around the world.

Assessment

The course includes a variety of teaching, learning and assessment methods.

Assessment methods include:

• essays
• reviews
• examinations
• laboratory notebooks
• scientific reports
• posters
• oral presentations

Reflective learning is encouraged through the use of:

• self reflection following feedback
• peer or staff formative feedback
• group work
• project work
• reflective diaries

Study Modules

Teaching for this course takes place Face to Face and you can expect around 8 hours of contact time per week. In addition to this, you should also anticipate a workload of 1,200 hours per year. Teaching usually takes place Monday to Friday, between 9.00am and 6.00pm.

Final Year

Compulsory Modules

• Research Project

A Research Project is your chance to do brand new research and find out what it’s really like to be a professional scientist – gathering, considering and evaluating data, then communicating it clearly and critically to others.

Optional Modules

• Neuroscience
• Evidence Based Medicine
• Genomic Medicine
• Independent Study in Life Sciences
• Molecular Biology of Cancer
• Pathophysiology
• Professional Skills and Techniques
• Science and Humanity

Careers

The BSc Hons Medical Sciences (final-year entry) degree will open up many wonderful doors for our graduates. Students on our similar final-year courses have gone on to work in diagnostic clinics, diagnostic labs, biomedical companies, or to complete Master’s or PhD studentships.

Popular roles include:

• biochemist
• biotechnologist
• medical research scientist
• lab technician
• forensic scientist
• clinical research associate
• microbiologist

Entry Requirements

Further Offer Details

Students will usually have achieved a Diploma of Higher Education with at least 55% or a Higher National Diploma with a Merit profile in a relevant discipline such as Applied Sciences (Biology) or Biomedical Science, or an equivalent relevant Level 5 qualification of 240 CATS subject to individual credit rating by Oxford Brookes University.

Specific Entry Requirements

Please also see the University's general entry requirements.

English Language Requirements

For applicants whose first language is not English, an Academic IELTS with 6.0 overall, including 6.0 in Reading and Writing, and 5.5 in Listening and Speaking.

Please also see the University's standard English language requirements.

Tuition Fees

2025/26

• Home (UK) full time: £9,535
• International full time: £17,750

2026/27

• Home (UK) full time: £9,535*
• International full time: £18,250

*Tuition fee level for . Tuition fees for home undergraduate students in will be confirmed by the Government later in 2025 and will be updated on our website as soon as the information becomes available.

Please note, tuition fees for Home students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students in line with an inflationary amount determined by government. Oxford Brookes University intends to maintain its fees for new and returning Home students at the maximum permitted level.

For further information please see our tuition fees FAQs.

Tuition fees for International students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students.

The following factors will be taken into account by the University when it is setting the annual fees: inflationary measures such as the retail price indices, projected increases in University costs, changes in the level of funding received from Government sources, admissions statistics and access considerations including the availability of student support.

Financial Support and Scholarships

For general sources of financial support, see our Fees and funding pages.

Additional Costs

Please be aware that some courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees. Specific additional costs for this course are detailed below.

Programme changes: On rare occasions we may need to make changes to our course programmes after they have been published on the website. For more information, please visit our changes to programmes page.