Health Care Management, MSc
Swansea UniversitySingleton Park Campus, United Kingdom
Course overview
This MSc is designed for people currently working in health-related management roles who wish to strengthen their skills and extend their impact. The programme explores key management and leadership theories and examines how they can be applied in real health care settings. You will develop the capability to lead service improvement, manage organisational change, collaborate effectively across professional boundaries, communicate with confidence and influence, and use resources wisely, equipping you to respond positively to current challenges and to drive sustainable improvements in health care quality.
Choosing to study this programme, you signal to employers a clear and sustained commitment to a career in health care management. You will study alongside experienced, ambitious professionals who share a long-term intention to lead and improve health care. This investment of time, effort, and resources demonstrates seriousness of purpose and helps to build credibility and trust with current and future employers.
The programme enables you to acquire specialised knowledge in leadership, management, and quality improvement, developing a well-rounded and informed understanding of the complex contexts in which health care is delivered and developed. Graduates are recognised for their depth of insight, professional maturity, and readiness to contribute over the long term to high-quality health services.
Key highlights
- Designed for professionals already working in health-related management roles
- Applies management and leadership theory to real health care settings
- Develops skills to lead service improvement and manage organisational change
- Builds cross-professional collaboration, communication and influencing skills
- Specialised knowledge in leadership, management and quality improvement
- Study alongside experienced, ambitious health care professionals
Entry requirements
- Degree: 2:2 — 2:2.
Scholarships
Chevening Scholarships
International Postgraduate Alumni Bursaries
First Class - £5,000 per year; Second Class, First division - £3,000 per year; Second Class, Second division - £1,000 per year; Taught Masters to Research Degree - £3,000 per year subject to satisfactory progress.
Swansea University International Postgraduate Research Excellence Scholarship (SUIPRES)
The SUIPRES Scholarship covers the difference between the International and the Home tuition fee rate for the duration of the PhD/Professional Doctorate programme.
Careers this course leads to
- Health service manager
- Hospital operations manager
- Quality improvement lead
- Clinical services manager
- Health care practice manager
Cost of study
UK/Home: £10,400 per year | International: £20,850 per year
Admission
Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to Swansea University, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.
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