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Global Health & Social Medicine BSc
at King's College London

London, United Kingdom

Tuition Fee £ 28,961
Country Rank-
Duration36 Months
Score IELTS: 6.5 TOEFL: 92

Program Overview

Our Global Health & Social Medicine BSc offers a unique and exciting course with the opportunity to study abroad for a year and aims to train a new generation of leaders who want to make a difference in the world.

This course is ideal for students seeking to make a difference to improving health and wellbeing, locally and globally, by shaping effective health policies and health care delivery systems. The BSc includes a focus on bioscience, specialising in one of three pathways; ageing, neuroscience or pharmacology.

Course Content
Structure
This is a three-year degree course in which you will take a combination of required and optional modules to total 360 credits. Students will have the option to apply to study abroad for a year, which would extend the programme to a four-year degree course if they are successful.

Year 1

Required modules

Courses are divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totaling 120 credits.

You are required to take the following modules:

• Introduction to Global Health 1 & 2 (15 credits each)
• Introduction to Social Medicine 1 & 2 (15 credits each)
• Research Practice & Design Studio (30 credits)

You are also required to select one of the below biomedical pathways to follow throughout your degree and take 30 credits from that pathway to make up 25% of your first year of study:

Neuroscience pathway

You are required to take the following modules:
• Cell Biology & Neuroscience (15 credits)
• Fundamentals of Pharmacology (15 credits)
Entry Requirement
Must be registered on as a student at your home university for the duration of your time at King's (i.e you cannot be on a leave of absence from your degree) and your university is transferring at least some of the credits earned at King's towards your degree.
Undergraduate students must be registered on a BA/BSc/LLB or equivalent undergraduate degree.
Undertaken a minimum of 1 year of university level study.

Fees & Scholarships

International Tuition Fees:

£28961 per year

Career Prospect

With the job market becoming ever more competitive, it has been reported that King’s offers its graduates the best job prospects of any London or Russell Group university, with an employment rate of 95.2 percent, an increase of 2.6 percent on last year. The data, compiled by The Careers Group, University of London, is based on institutional Employment Performance Indicators (EPI) for full-time, first degree, UK domiciled graduates in work or further study.

King’s has the highest EPI in the Russell Group and the largest increase in benchmark performance from 2009-10 figures. The results also place King’s third overall in the UK as reported in The Telegraph’s ‘Top 10 universities for getting a job’. Robert Hall, Director of Library Services & Employability, said: ‘This is testament to the commitment the university is making in ensuring that our students develop the right skills to succeed in the work place.’

This degree course equips students for a wide range of career options in the health services, in public health, in government and NGOs in the UK and elsewhere, and in the commercial medical and health sectors, as well as for future careers in academic research and teaching.

Cost Of Studying At King's College London

Interest rates as low as 8.9% ^*

250K+

Students Assisted

800Cr+

Loan Amount Disbursed

5000+

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Global Health & Social Medicine BSc at King's College London