Paramedic Science

Program Overview

BSc (Honours) Paramedic Science

Course Summary

This course prepares you for a career as a paramedic, providing high-quality unscheduled care in diverse, unpredictable, and challenging environments. You'll learn to assess, diagnose, stabilize, treat, and manage patients across the lifespan.

How You Learn

You'll learn through a mix of lectures, seminars, and practical sessions, as well as access to digital and online resources. You'll work with peers from other health and social care courses, developing your skills in inter-professional teamworking and collaborative practice.

Modules

Year 1

• Clinical Placement Practice 1
• Collaboration For Individual And Community Wellbeing
• Foundations Of Paramedic Practice 1A
• Foundations Of Paramedic Practice 1B
• Personal And Professional Development

Year 2

• Assessing And Addressing Complexity In Practice
• Clinical Placement Practice 2
• Developing Paramedic Practice 2A
• Developing Paramedic Practice 2B
• Evidence And Enquiry For Practice

Year 3

• Clinical Placement Practice 3
• Complexity & Leadership In Professional Practice
• Independant Paramedic Practice
• Specialist Populations In Paramedic Practice
• The Advancing Professional

Future Careers

This course prepares you for a career in:

• Ambulance Trusts
• Specialist roles in critical care, urgent care, or mental health
• Advanced practice
• Primary care
• Research
• The Police
• The prison system
• International settings
• Private practice
• Wilderness and remote medicine
• Cruise ships
• Education
• Leadership

Equipment and Facilities

You'll work with:

• Simulated environments
• High fidelity simulation equipment
• Cutting-edge pre-hospital equipment
• Specialist manikins
• A specialist health and wellbeing learning resource centre

Where Will I Study?

You'll study at Collegiate Campus through a structured mix of lectures, seminars, and practical sessions, as well as access to digital and online resources.

Entry Requirements

• 128 UCAS points from A levels, which must include at least 32 points from either a natural science subject or equivalent BTEC National qualifications
• Access to HE Diploma from a QAA recognized Access to HE course in health studies, health science, nursing, or another science-based course
• GCSEs in Science, Maths, and English Language or Literature at grade C or 4 or equivalents
• IELTS score of 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in all skills, or equivalent

Fees and Funding

• Home students: £9,535 per year (2025/26)
• International students: £19,500 per year (2026/27)
• NHS Learning Support Fund offers a non-repayable training grant of £5,000 per year to all eligible new and current pre-registration students
• Additional financial support based on your circumstances up to the value of around £5,000

Additional Course Costs

• Estimated general course additional costs
• Costs associated with key activities on specific courses

Legal Information

• Any offer of a place to study is subject to your acceptance of the University's Terms and Conditions and Student Regulations.