MSc Enhanced Professional Midwifery Practice at Swansea University

Programme overview

This work-based, modular master's is for qualified, registered and employed midwives. It develops midwifery knowledge, clinical reasoning and decision-making, critical research and analytical skills, and reflective practice with the support of a personal tutor.

Faculty: School of Health and Social Care | Duration: 3 years part time (minimum 3, maximum 5 years; up to 60 credits per year) | Intake: September | Location: Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

What you will study

Year 1 covers Starting Your Professional Development and Advancing Midwifery Leadership. Further 30-credit options include Policy Influences on Your Practice, Assessing Your Current Practice, Leading Quality Improvement in Midwifery Practice, Coaching and Teaching Skills for Midwifery Practice and Managing Wellbeing in Midwifery Practice.

Career pathways

Successful completion often leads to enhanced professional practice and opens opportunities for career progression within the graduate's chosen area of midwifery practice. Graduates emerge as autonomous, reflective practitioners capable of critical thinking.

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Application information

Entry requirements

The course is aimed at graduate midwives who are NMC registered (non-graduate midwives can study the BSc (Hons) Enhanced Professional Practice instead). Clinical experience requirements are individual, though most midwives consolidate their practice as a newly qualified midwife first. Admission for most applicants is based on employer agreement on funding or study leave, and self-funding applicants studying in their own time are also considered. Attendance at a mandatory one-week induction at the start of year one is required. Typical offer 2:2.

Domestic applicants: GBP 3,250 a year (2026/27 (September 2). Year 1 tuition fee, part-time Source

Intake: September

Duration: 3 years part time (minimum 3, maximum 5 years; up to 60 credits per year)

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