MSc Dietetics (Pre-Registration)
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
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This MSc Dietetics (Pre-Registration) course provides graduates of biological sciences with a route into a fulfilling career, helping people improve their health and wellbeing and their quality of life.The course has a clinical and health promotion focus and includes three practice placements. On completion you will be able to apply for registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) to work as a dietitian.Why QMU?Reputation and experience: Dietetic education at QMU is well ...Read more

This MSc Dietetics (Pre-Registration) course provides graduates of biological sciences with a route into a fulfilling career, helping people improve their health and wellbeing and their quality of life.

The course has a clinical and health promotion focus and includes three practice placements. On completion you will be able to apply for registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) to work as a dietitian.

Why QMU?

Reputation and experience: Dietetic education at QMU is well established, extremely popular and well respected.

Employability: The profession has excellent graduate employability rates and graduates go on to work in a variety of positions both in the NHS and/or in public health, health promotion, private healthcare, government, academia and in industry.

Placements enable you to put your learning into practice: The course delivers theoretical and practical campus based learning with three integrated periods of practice based learning enabling you to develop key knowledge, skills and attributes as a trainee dietitian and to meet and evidence the necessary competence to enable registration with the Health Professions Council

Staff expertise: The teaching team includes four registered dietitians who have strong links with the dietetic profession within Scotland and across the UK.

Research ensures relevance: The University’s clinically relevant research, along with the broad range of experience of the teaching team, ensures that the course remains current.

Facilities: The University campus offers excellent facilities for learning in relation to this course of studies including simulated clinical skills suites, clinical and biochemistry laboratories and food development laboratories. Practice based learning opportunities are provided within a variety of appropriate NHS facilities and settings.

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charlotte
13 Feb 24

Location, staff, facilities are great. Because lots of staff only works part-time, it makes timetables a bit inefficient, with often just one class per day, meaning that lots of..Read more

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13 Feb 24

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Entry requirements

A good honours degree (minimum upper second class honours (2:1) or above is required that includes significant emphasis on human physiology and biochemistry. An application should illustrate what has been done by the applicant to research, and understand more about the role of a dietitian. In particular, evidence of understanding the skills, attributes and values required to work as a dietitian should be evident in the application.

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£9,970 per year

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Students from Domestic

This is the fee you pay if the University is in the same country that you live in (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)

Year 1: £9,970 Year 2: £9,970 + £1300 (dissertation fee). The mentioned fee is for 2023/24 year entry. There might be a slight increase in 2024/25 year entry.

£18,400 per year

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Students from EU

The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from somewhere in the EU.

Year 1: £18,400 Year 2: £18,400 +£3,710 (dissertation fee). The mentioned fee is for 2023/24 year entry. There might be a slight increase in 2024/25 year entry.

£18,400 per year

This information is updated by IDP Connect, or in some cases the institution directly.
Please note: The fees might vary so please make sure you contact the institution for up to date information.

Students from International

The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from a country outside the EU.

Year 1: £18,400 Year 2: £18,400 +£3,710 (dissertation fee). The mentioned fee is for 2023/24 year entry. There might be a slight increase in 2024/25 year entry.

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Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
Queen Margaret University Drive Musselburgh Edinburgh EH21 6UU United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Musselburgh  0.1 miles away
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