Children's Nursing MSc

Reasons to choose Kingston

• Top University in London for Children’s Nursing, The Guardian University Guide 2026

• Kingston University is top in London for Nursing and Midwifery (The Complete University Guide 2026).

• Our award-winning simulation suite (Student Nursing Times Awards 2019) offers realistic environments in which to learn, including hospital wards and community settings with family role- players.

• Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.

Children’s nursing is very popular and this two-year postgraduate course will enable you to become a registered children’s nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

You’ll learn to provide evidence-based care for children and young people (birth to age 18), working in partnership with their families and with other health and social care professionals. You’ll spend your time learning about child development in healthy children and in children who are acutely ill or need complex, high dependency or palliative care.

Placement opportunities are at London’s leading NHS hospitals such as Great Ormond Street, St George’s, St Helier, Kingston, Royal Marsden, Chelsea and Westminster and Croydon Hospitals, as well as in community settings.