Midwifery, BMid (Hons)
Swansea UniversitySingleton Park Campus, United Kingdom
Course overview
Gain the skills and experience to launch a rewarding and valued career as a midwife with our prestigious, internationally recognised Midwifery degree course. You will develop the clinical and interpersonal expertise to ensure a woman’s physical and emotional well-being during pregnancy, childbirth and early parenthood. You will also learn to analyse, evaluate, and critique research studies to support reflective and evidence-based study and practice.
Half of your teaching takes place in the university and the other half in practice placements, working with midwives in community-based teams, midwifery-led birth centres and hospital maternity units. We have excellent links with Welsh health boards, so you will have access to a wide range of placement settings across south west Wales, with the nearest maternity hospital right next-door to our Singleton Park campus on the edge of the beautiful Gower Peninsula. Our BMid (Hons) Midwifery degree has been designed to meet the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) standards and completion of our course will enable students to demonstrate achievement of the NMC Standards of proficiency for midwives.
Key highlights
- Designed to meet Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) standards
- Graduates demonstrate NMC Standards of proficiency for midwives
- Half of teaching takes place in practice placements
- Placements in community teams, midwife-led birth centres and maternity units
- Strong links with Welsh health boards across south west Wales
- Maternity hospital located next to the Singleton Park campus
Entry requirements
- A-level: BBB — BBB.
- Welsh Baccalaureate — * Offer BBB * We welcome applications from Advanced Skills; Diploma students
- BTEC: DDD — Typical Access to HE Offer 30 Distinctions, 15 Merits, Typical BTEC Offer DDD.
- International Baccalaureate: 32 — International Baccalaureate 32 points HE Cert in Maternity Care All applicants will need a satisfactory educational reference.
- Additional condition: interview — Applicants who meet the entry requirements and selection criteria will be invited to interview, which may take place in person or via telephone/video call.
- Additional condition: dbs_check — …interview, any offer of a place will be conditional upon a satisfactory DBS/police check or equivalent from your home country as well as an occupational health declaration and assessment prior to starting y…
- Additional condition: occupational_health — All applicants will be required to have a satisfactory enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check and occupational health check.
Scholarships
International Excellence Scholarships
Scholarships are awarded as a discount on tuition fees worth up to £5,000 in the first year of study, with a further £2,000 awarded in Year 2 (for £5,000 awardees only, subject to achieving a 70% average).
Swansea University Sport Scholarship
Financial support (of up to £2000).
Thrive Bursary
The Thrive bursary is a £4,000 reduction in tuition fees for the first year of study, with a progression bursary of £2,000 in subsequent years (applied as a discount off tuition fees).
Up to £4,000
Careers this course leads to
- Registered Midwife
- Community Midwife
- Hospital Midwife
- Birth Centre Midwife
- Specialist Midwife
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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