Intercalated masters degrees

• September 2026 start
• 1 year 2 years Full-time Part-time
• Accredited

Develop essential research, evaluation, and analytical skills for leading public health initiatives in the UK and globally. Our APHEA-accredited program helps to prepare you for professional roles in public health and offers a strong foundation for pursuing PhD-level studies.

• September 2026 start
• 1 year 2 years Full-time Part-time
• Accredited

Healthcare systems around the world are under immense strain due to a huge range of issues including climate change, workforce shortages, conflicts, pandemics, and much more. It has never been more important than now to understand how to effectively lead healthcare and public health organisations, to ensure resilience, and maintain operations to meet the rising demand.

• September 2026 start
• 1 year 2 years Full-time Part-time
• Accredited

Develop essential research and analytical skills for evaluating health services and public health interventions, laying a solid foundation for a PhD or an academic career in public health. At the University of Sheffield, a top research university, our APHEA-accredited program offers invaluable insights from leading experts in the field and a strong foundation for pursuing PhD-level studies.

• September 2026 start
• 1 year Full-time

Understand neurological disease and how clinical research breakthroughs are translated into treatments. You’ll attend NHS clinics to learn from patients and clinicians.

• September 2026 start
• 1 year 2 years 3 years Full-time Part-time

Our Clinical Research course prepares students with the skills to critically evaluate research and handle the practical and regulatory challenges of designing and conducting clinical and health research projects.

• September 2026 start
• 1 year Full-time

Explore the science behind reproductive and developmental processes and their clinical applications. Develop specialist knowledge as a scientist or clinician, or prepare for further training in IVF or embryology.

• September 2026 start
• 1 year Full-time

Designed for students interested in gaining the practical, lab-based skills necessary to understand neurological diseases at the molecular and cellular level and how to apply this knowledge to benefit patients.

• September 2026 start
• 1 year 2 years Full-time Part-time

The programme provides research-led teaching in fundamental cancer biology, clinical oncology and the latest advances in modern therapeutics including immunotherapy and precision medicine. In addition, the six-month full-time research project is excellent preparation for a PhD and a career in healthcare or the pharmaceutical industry.

• September 2026 start
• 1 year Full-time

Develop analytical skills for a career in health economics. Learn to measure, model, and evaluate healthcare interventions to inform public health decisions. Employers praise our course for its hands-on experience, making graduates job-ready from day one.

• September 2026 start
• 1 year Full-time

Tailor your MSc training by choosing a specialist pathway in Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, or Cell Biology and Drug Development, ready to make a difference across biomedicine in academia, healthcare or industry.

• September 2026 start
• 1 year Full-time

Train in the core aspects of contemporary neuroscience, from sensation and sensory processing, to understanding complex brain functions and artificial intelligence with opportunities to conduct independent research.

• September 2026 start
• 1 year Full-time

Learn how to collect and interpret neuroimaging data to draw conclusions from healthy and unhealthy brains. All whilst developing skills in cognitive neuroscience, neurophysiological data collection and analysis techniques.

• September 2026 start
• 1 year Full-time

Learn how to meet the pharmaceutical industry’s increasing demands for drugs that can treat illnesses safely and effectively, overcome antibiotic resistance, and be produced at a lower financial and environmental cost.

• September 2026 start
• 1 year Full-time

Explore human genetics and develop an understanding of how human genetic diseases are diagnosed clinically at the chromosome and DNA levels.

• September 2026 start
• 1 year Full-time

Gain in-depth knowledge and specialist molecular skills through extensive practical laboratory training, ready for a career in the biotechnology sector.

• September 2026 start
• 1 year Full-time

Science can change the world - but only if people understand it. Taught by experts across science and journalism, we’ll train you to use key media technology to effectively communicate science to (and for) the public, the media, business and beyond.

• September 2026 start
• 1 year 2 years Full-time Part-time

Explore the cutting edge of research into the nature of the mind and behaviour on this highly flexible course, in which philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, anthropology and artificial intelligence come together to discover how the mind works.

• Funding available