Online healthcare degrees

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Learn part-time with our flexible online healthcare degrees.

If you’re a healthcare professional, or looking to make the career change into healthcare, these postgraduate degrees are designed for you.

  • Flexible study hours, so you can work full-time while you earn qualifications.
  • Spread the cost, with pay-per-term degree fees.
  • Take study breaks between courses when you need to.
MSc • PgDip • PgCert

Applied Health Sciences

Earn a Masters, Postgraduate Diploma, or Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Health Sciences with our flexible online and on-campus courses. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Blended learning
  • September or January
MSc • PgDip • PgCert

Clinical Education

Become an outstanding clinical educator with our distance learning clinical education training. Study online with us and earn your MSc, PgDip or PgCert in Clinical Education while you work. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • September or January
MSc • PgDip • PgCert

Clinical Nutrition

Join an online Nutrition degree accredited by the Association for Nutrition. Study the link between diet and health, and how issues of over and undernutrition affect populations today. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • September or January
MSc • PgDip • PgCert

Health Economics for Health Professionals

Advance your career in health. Develop sought-after research skills and build your knowledge of health economics tools and principles. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • September
MPH

Master of Public Health (MPH)

Join a flexible online Master of Public Health (MPH) you can study part-time and tailor to you. Choose from a wide range of courses to focus your training. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • September or January
PgCert

Research Methods for Health

Learn to design and carry out healthcare research projects. Study part-time with active health researchers at an award-winning health sciences university. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • September or January

Healthcare short courses – online and blended learning

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If you’re not ready to take on a full degree, start small with our online short courses.

These bitesize healthcare and medicine courses give you a flexible way to:

  • build your way to a postgraduate qualification in healthcare, one short course at time
  • add fresh skills to your CV
  • try a new subject or healthcare career area to see if it’s for you.

Whether you’re looking to earn a Masters, progress your career, or upskill for the future, find your first course to get started.

Short course

Applied Statistics

Join our expert statisticians online and learn to use statistics in your health research or professional practice. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • January
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Assessment of Nutritional Health

Learn about the latest techniques in assessing nutritional health with expert guidance from the Rowett Institute, one of Europe’s most prestigious nutrition research centres. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • September
Short course

Challenges in Global Nutrition

Join our part-time online nutrition course and learn about nutrition challenges around the world. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • January
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Clinical Nutrition for Disease Prevention

Join our nutrition researchers online to explore the link between diet and disease. 10% NHS staff discount for this advanced nutrition course.

  • Online learning
  • January
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Designing Real-World Trials

Learn to design and implement your own Randomised Controlled Trials with our experienced trialists and award-winning researchers. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • September
Short course

Epidemiology

Learn to understand, measure and tackle disease with this flexible online Epidemiology course you can fit around full-time work. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • January
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Evidence-Based Health

Learn to extract, assess and use evidence gained in health research on this part-time online course. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • September
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Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Management

Join our ECMO course at Scotland’s only respiratory adult ECMO training centre. Gain ECMO certification and learn from practising clinicians and ECMO specialists.

  • Blended learning
  • September or January
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Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): Health, Law, and Socio-Cultural Sensitivity

Learn to recognise, report and prevent FGM practices. Join our free online course for anyone with safeguarding duties, including health and social care professionals.

  • Online learning
  • March
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Fundamentals of Human Nutrition and Metabolism

Join our part-time online short course to understand the impact of food on our health. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • September
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Fundamentals of Research Design

Gain fundamental skills in health-related research. Join our online research design course that fits around full-time work. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • September
Short course

Health Economics

Boost your skills as a health professional or researcher. Learn about the key concepts in health economics with our online course that fits round full-time work. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • January
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Health Informatics

Are you ready for Big Data? Learn to handle the growing volume of data in healthcare, and how we can use it to improve health and wellbeing for all. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Introduction to Health Data Science

Join our online health data science course and learn to use data to address healthcare problems. Develop skills in R programming online. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • September
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Key Concepts in Global Health

Learn about essential concepts in global health on this flexible online short course that fits around full-time work. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • September
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Machine Learning for Healthcare

Develop data science skills and learn to apply them to healthcare. Join our online health data science course and learn the foundations of machine learning and R programming. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • January
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Management of Emergency Injuries for Advanced Practitioners

Join our blended learning course and prepare for a clinical role as an Advanced Autonomous Practitioner within settings including pre-hospital, Community, Primary or Emergency care.

  • Blended learning
  • September
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Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace

Investigate how mental health, wellbeing and work are related. Study online with expert psychologists and learn to create a mentally healthy workplace, in the office and remotely. 10% discount for NHS staff.

  • Online learning
  • September or January
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Non-Medical Prescribing (V300)

Gain the V300 qualification you need to become an independent or supplementary prescriber with our blended-learning course.

  • Blended learning
  • September
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Nutrition and Health Through the Life Stages

Study the relationship between diet, human development, health and disease at every stage of life. Learn with leaders in nutrition research, part-time online. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Nutrition and Wellbeing

Demystify the complex and conflicting messages we hear about nutrition, health and lifestyle today with this free online course.

  • Online learning
  • Any time
Short course

Nutrition Science: Food Choice and Behaviour

Nourish your skills and explore the psychology of consumers with our free and flexible online nutrition course.

  • Online learning
  • Any time
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Nutrition Science: Lifestyle Medicine

Study lifestyle medicine online for free with expert practitioners and researchers. Investigate the role of diet, exercise, mental health and environment in improving health outcomes.

  • Online learning
  • Any time
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Nutrition Science: Obesity and Healthy Weight Loss

Study obesity and weight loss online with expert UK nutritionists. Learn about the causes of obesity and explore the evidence behind a range of approaches to weight management.

  • Online learning
  • Any time
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Professional and Clinical Development in Critical Care Nursing

Join our blended learning courses for critical care nurses. Earn the credits you need to meet the National Education requirements to work in critical care.

  • Blended learning
  • September or January
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Public Health in Action

Learn how to protect, promote, monitor and improve public health, at an award-winning health research university. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • September
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Qualitative Health Research

Discover an exploratory approach to health research. Learn from experienced qualitative health researchers on a course that fits round full-time work. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • September
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Sustainable Diets and Global Food Systems

Earn credits towards a Masters degree with our online sustainable food systems course. Learn about global food systems with world-leading experts at a UK university. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • January
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Teaching and Facilitating Learning in Clinical Education

Choose respected training in clinical education with a university ranked 2nd in the UK for Medicine (Guardian University Guide 2023). 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • January
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Women’s Health in a Global Setting

Join our online women’s health course and study global women’s health issues, from LGBTQ health inequalities to the effects of Covid-19 on women in developing countries. 10% NHS staff discount.

  • Online learning
  • January
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Train with healthcare experts

Be part of a university leading the way in nutrition, women’s health, infection control and clinical scanning, transforming lives and medical practice around the world.

Award-winning research

We’re proud winners of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize, the highest national honour for a UK university, for sustained excellence in health services research over the last 40 years.

NHS and alumni discounts

NHS staff receive a 10% discount on a range of our online courses and degrees, and our alumni receive 20% off.

Online courses for careers in healthcare

You’ll earn the same qualification online as you would studying on campus – and our online qualifications are recognised by healthcare employers and learning institutions around the world.

You can progress in or towards many healthcare roles with our online courses, including:

  • Health Economist
  • Health Data Analyst
  • Clinical Supervisor
  • Medical Educator
  • Nutritionist
  • Health Lecturer
  • Health Researcher

They can also help you progress into a health-related PhD.