Global Mental Health and Society (MSc)

at University of Edinburgh

The MSc in Global Mental Health and Society is offered as one-year full-time or two-year part-time programme.
 

The programme consists of 180 credits, comprised of:

• 3 x 20-credit required core courses
• 3 x 20-credit optional courses
• a 60-credit dissertation course
   

You will complete six courses over two semesters from September to April. Three of these will be compulsory core courses.
 

Courses
 

Culture and Mental Health
 

The first core course, Culture and Mental Health, engages you in theorising and problematising key concepts such as:

• ‘mental health’
• ‘mental illness'
• ‘emotion’
• ‘trauma’
• western diagnostic categories
• ‘healing’
   

This course also gets you to examine their cross-cultural application in practice.
 

This course will draw primarily on literature from:

• medical anthropology
• psychological anthropology
• transcultural psychiatry
• cross-cultural psychology

A UK 2:1 honours degree or its international equivalent.
 

English language requirements

You must demonstrate a level of English language competency at a level that will enable you to succeed in your studies, regardless of your nationality or country of residence.
 

English language tests

We accept the following English language qualifications at the grades specified*:

• IELTS Academic: total 6.5 with at least 6.0 in each component.
• TOEFL-iBT (including Home Edition): total 92 with at least 20 in each component. We do not accept TOEFL MyBest Score to meet our English language requirements.
• C1 Advanced (CAE) / C2 Proficiency (CPE): total 176 with at least 169 in each component.
• Trinity ISE: ISE II with distinctions in all four components.
• PTE Academic: total 62 with at least 59 in each component.
• Your English language qualification must be no more than three and a half years old from the start date of the programme you are applying to study, unless you are using IELTS, TOEFL, Trinity ISE or PTE, in which case it must be no more than two years old.

International/EU    
£25,300    
 

International full-time student fees
 

If you are an Overseas/International taught student studying full-time over multiple years, you will:

• not be affected by the annual tuition fee increase
• be charged a fixed annual fee based on your start date

Global mental health is a growing field with significant recent and ongoing investment from multilateral development agencies and governments, in both research and implementation.
 

This qualification will be help prepare you for careers in global mental health policy, implementation and research.
 

You would also be qualified to undertake similar careers with the UK health sector.