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Midwifery

  • BSc (Hons)
  • 3 Years
  • Full-time
  • 21 September 2026
  • Undergraduate
Stratford Campus
Awarded by:
The Nursing and Midwifery Council
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Course summary

This midwifery degree will prepare you to kickstart your career as a midwife, enabling you upon graduation to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Midwives provide care and support to women and their families during all stages of pregnancy, including delivery of new life and, labour and the early postnatal period. This midwifery programme follows the Standards for Pre-Registration Midwifery programmes set by the NMC.

Modules

Year 1: Biosciences in midwifery (Core), Mental wealth and the professional midwife (Core), Universal care in pregnancy and birth (Core), Public Health and the Midwife (Core), Professional midwife practice 1 (Core)

Year 2: Promoting excellence as a midwife scholar (Core), Complexity in pregnancy (Core), Care of the newborn infant (Core), Complexity in labour and postnatal (Core), Professional midwife practice 2 (Core)

Year 3: Maternity and neonatal urgent and emergency care (Core), Preparation for registration (Core), Leadership and management (Core), Service innovation and promoting excellence (Core), Professional midwife practice 3 (Core)

For more information about individual modules, please visit our course pages via the link below.

Assessment method

Coursework will include presentations, practical exams, workbooks and research-based assignments. The approximate percentages for this course are:
YEAR 1: Coursework 50%, Practical 50%
YEAR 2: Coursework 50%, Practical 50%
YEAR 3: Coursework 50%, Practical 50%

Professional bodies

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

  • Nursing and Midwifery Council

This course is available in Clearing. If you have submitted an application, you can add this course. If you haven’t sent us an application yet, you can do this until 24th September 2026.

This course is not accepting applications for deferred entry.

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • Stratford Campus

Study options

  • BSc (Hons) • Full-time • 3 Years

Start dates

  • 21 September 2026

Apply by
14 January

This is the equal consideration deadline. You can still apply after this date, but your application may not receive guaranteed consideration.

Application codes

Course code:
B741
Institution code:
E28
Campus name:
Stratford Campus
Campus Code:
S
Points of Entry:
Year 1

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How to apply

Apply by
14 January

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
B741
Institution code:
E28
Campus name:
Stratford Campus
Campus Code:
S

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

Entry requirements

UCAS Tariff
112 points

GCSE English Language grade C/4, GCSE Mathematics and Science grade C/4 or above are required.
Functional Skills Level 2 can be accepted in lieu of GCSE English Language and Maths qualifications.

A level
BBC

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
DMM

Access to HE Diploma

120 UCAS points

For detailed information on entry requirements for our courses, please see the individual course pages. We consider a range of UK and worldwide qualifications at the appropriate level and also take relevant work experience into account when considering an application. Many courses have a Foundation Year option for those students whose qualifications do not meet the BA or BSc entry requirements.

Applicants should have, or be working towards, grade C in GCSE English and Mathematics (or equivalent Level 2 qualification such as Functional Skills Level 2 in English and Mathematics or Key Skills Level 2 in Application of Number and Communication)

Entry requirements are intended only as a guide for applicants. They are not a guarantee of an offer, nor of the conditions that may apply. When making a decision on your academic suitability, we will make an assessment of you as an individual and will use information other than qualifications; which may include predicted grades, performance at Level 2, relevant work experience, previous study at degree level, personal statement, references and any portfolio, written test or interview, to make our decision.

If you have any questions, please contact a member of our Applicant Relations Team from Monday to Friday (9am–5pm) on +44 (0) 20 8223 3333 or https://uel.ac.uk/about/contact-us

Additional entry requirements

Interview
Other
Applicants are required to complete an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check for Regulated Activity

Contextual admissions

Universities and colleges consider more than grades when assessing applications and may make offers based on a range of criteria. Learn more about contextual offers.

As an inclusive university, we're proud to welcome students of all backgrounds and all ages. Mature students (over the age of 21) make up almost half of our undergraduate population. The University takes into account non-academic factors when making decisions and confirming your place for Results Day. If you have life or work experience that is relevant to your course, and can demonstrate your commitment to study, we can equip you to succeed.

Learn more on the University of East London website

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This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).

It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place.

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

Per year tuition fees

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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.

Additional fee information

No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.

Sponsorship information

There is financial support through the NHS Learning Support Fund which offers eligible students additional support while studying for their degree, including: a training grant of £5,000 per year; parental support payment of £2,000 per student per year to help with childcare costs; specialist subject payment of £1,000 per year for students on degrees that struggle to recruit, including mental health and learning disability nursing; help towards additional travel and accommodation costs to clinical placements over your normal daily travel costs; and, an exceptional hardship fund of up to £3,000 per student per academic year. You can find out more at www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/nhs-learning-support-fund-lsf

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