Study nursing or midwifery

Be taught by professionally registered academic staff, take advantage of our partnership with local NHS trusts, and take the first step of your healthcare career
Midwife Indi Collier

Are you ready to make a difference to people’s lives?

The global population is growing and living longer creating an increasing demand for health professionals.
The healthcare sector is one of the largest sources of employment in the UK.
Join us on courses located across the South West of England, including on our Plymouth, Exeter and Truro campuses.
 

Undergraduate courses

Courses enabling registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
BSc (Hons) Nursing (Adult Health) – 3 years, full-time
BSc (Hons) Nursing (Child Health) – 3 years, full-time
BSc (Hons) Nursing (Mental Health) – 3 years, full-time
BSc (Hons) Midwifery – 3 years, full-time
Our four-year dual field course offers the opportunity for students to be registered in two of the three fields of nursing we offer while achieving an undergraduate masters degree.

Pre-registration postgraduate programmes

Graduates in any discipline with recent health care experience can apply for our accelerated nursing and midwifery masters programmes.
MSc Midwifery (Pre-Registration) – 3 years, full-time
Our shortened midwifery programme provides Registered Adult Nurses who already have a relevant degree with the opportunity to study midwifery at masters level.
MSc Midwifery (Shortened) – 2 years, full-time
 

Undergraduate post-registration and professional development programmes

We offer a range of post-registration and professional development programmes to further your qualifications and help you meet your career goals.

Find out more about our professional development opportunities

Undergraduate post-registration and professional development courses

Postgraduate post-registration and professional development programmes

We offer a range of post-registration and professional development programmes to further your qualifications and help you meet your career goals.

Find out more about our professional development opportunities

Postgraduate post-registration and professional development programmes

 

Become a professional nurse or midwife

Shape your career as a nurse or midwife by specialising in the areas you want, work flexibly both in the UK and abroad, and be part of a wider multidisciplinary team.
At Plymouth, you’ll embark on a rewarding career, and have the option to be employed in the NHS, private sector or both.
£5,000 bursary for nursing students
The Government is issuing nursing students at least £5,000 a year, which does not need to be paid back. A further £3,000 a year is available for eligible students.
Male nursing student
Nursing student with a touchscreen device
What can you do with a nursing degree?
Nursing and Midwifery
What can you do with a midwifery degree?
Clearing nursing student Phoebe
NHS Careers: working in health

Study closer to home

Nursing courses are offered across three campuses spread across the South West in Plymouth, Truro and Exeter.
Studying at Truro or Exeter enables students who are beyond the commuting distance of our Plymouth campus to study with us without having to commit to long travel times.

Providing you with hands-on clinical experience

Our contemporary facilities and equipment will maximise your potential and develop your core skills so you are ready to embark on an exciting and rewarding career.
Simulated practice requires a combination of theoretical knowledge and practical skills, in order to keep our patients and service users safe. When learning skills, students need an understanding of why, when and how that action is best carried out, which is why we have invested in our clinical skills labs.

Shaping the future of healthcare

Men in nursing

If someone asks you to picture a doctor, it’s likely you’ll picture a man. If someone asks you to picture a nurse, it’s more likely you’ll picture a woman.

This unconscious bias is on the way to being addressed on the medical front as female medical student numbers have escalated in recent years – with women now accounting for over half of medical professionals at a training grade. Yet the amount of men training to become nurses has plateaued for decades at between 8–11%.

Adult Nursing lecturer Kevin Hambridge explains his personal and professional experience of combating the stereotype

Team of nurses in neonatal intensive care unit checking on a premature's vital signs and taking notes writing the numbers on a clipboard