Global Healthcare Management - MSc
University of KentCanterbury, United Kingdom
Course overview
This MSc equips you to lead, manage and innovate in healthcare organisations around the world. Whether you’re already working in the sector or planning a career move, this course helps you understand how healthcare systems operate – and how they can be improved. You’ll explore the big issues facing healthcare today: from health inequalities and system reform to sustainability, digital transformation and patient safety.
You’ll build key skills in leadership, strategy, finance and policy development, learning how to evaluate complex problems and design solutions that improve care. Teaching is research-led and interdisciplinary, led by evidence from researchers at Kent Business School and the Centre for Health Services Studies. You’ll learn through real-world case studies, collaborative projects and simulated decision-making scenarios, and you’ll have the chance to apply your learning through a live consultancy project or a summer internship.
This course prepares you to lead in a fast-changing field – with the insight, confidence and practical experience to make a real difference. Study the Global Healthcare Management MSc at Kent Business School and graduate with the confidence to excel in your career.
Key highlights
- Live consultancy project or summer internship to apply your learning
- Research-led teaching drawing on the Centre for Health Services Studies
- Covers health inequalities, system reform, sustainability and digital transformation
- Builds leadership, strategy, finance and policy development skills
- Learn through case studies, collaborative projects and simulated decision-making
Entry requirements
- Degree: 2:2 — or above
- Degree: 2nd class — or above
Scholarships
Chevening Scholarships
Christine and Ian Bolt Scholarship
Scholarship value up to £10,000.
Kent Business School Beaconhouse PG Progression Scholarship
Tuition fee discount scholarship of £6,000.
Up to £6,000Kent Business School Dean's Excellence Scholarship Award
Awards of up to £3,000
Kent Business School MBA Scholarship
50% off Tuition Fee.
Up to 50% of feesKent Graduate Scholarship
20% fee reduction for post-graduate taught programmes at the University of Kent.
Up to 20% of feesKent International Scholarship Postgraduate Taught
Scholarship value - £5000
Up to £5,000Kent International Scholarship Postgraduate Taught (KBS)
Scholarship value £3000
Up to £3,000Kent LLM Solicitors’ Practice Scholarship (Canterbury)
£2,000 tuition fee discount (Home Students); £2,000 tuition fee discount (Overseas Students).
Up to £2,000Sasha Roberts Scholarship
£3,000 stipend per annum split into two payments of £1,500 in October and January.
Up to £3,000The “Ambition” Scholarship for University of Kent Graduates
£1,500 for Full Time UK students; £750 per year for Part Time UK students; £3,000 for Full Time Overseas students.
The CAMEMS Scholarship
£3,000 stipend per annum split into two payments of £1,500 in October and January.
Up to £3,000The Widening Participation Ambition Scholarship for University of Kent Graduates
£5,000 for UK students (£2,500 per year for part time students).
Careers this course leads to
- Healthcare manager
- Health services manager
- Health policy analyst
- Healthcare consultant
- Hospital operations manager
- Health programme manager
Cost of study
UK/Home: £15,000 per year | International: £20,700 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 University of Kent, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.
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