MSc Healthcare Management
Our MSc Healthcare Management course combines strategic decision-making, change management and applied problem-solving with hands-on experience in healthcare finance, clinical operations and AI-driven systems, preparing you to lead teams and transform modern healthcare landscapes with confidence.
Overview
Why choose our MSc Healthcare Management course?
- Operational and resource optimisation – Master the complexities of strategic resource allocation, workforce planning and financial management to drive efficiency in modern healthcare organisations.
- Evidence based crisis leadership – Build the resilient leadership skills needed to manage public health crises, mitigate operational risk and implement data-driven clinical decisions.
- AI driven health innovation – Gain the digital fluency required to lead next generation healthcare by mastering the creative and strategic deployment of artificial intelligence.
- Simulated front line practice – Bridge the gap between theory and clinical service delivery through hands-on, practical learning models that replicate complex healthcare environments.
- Business and clinical mastery – Achieve the vital balance of commercial excellence and robust clinical governance required to lead, rather than just adapt to, the future of healthcare.
About our MSc Healthcare Management course
Master the future of healthcare leadership. As global health systems face unprecedented operational and technological shifts, there is an urgent demand for managers who can deliver business excellence with healthcare specific expertise.
This programme at The University of Law empowers you to integrate strategic decision-making with robust operational management, ensuring you can navigate complex clinical environments with precision and authority. Through a curriculum that integrates change leadership, healthcare innovation and applied problem solving, you’ll develop the critical fluency to lead teams, manage finance and implement AI driven systems. Designed both for those looking to enter the sector and existing healthcare professionals seeking to advance within the management structure of a health organisation, this programme equips you with the academic depth and practical capability to transform modern healthcare landscapes.
This course is also offered as a 2-year full-time Professional Practice programme which is aimed at fostering the employment opportunities of students. Offering greater flexibility than a traditional placement year, our Professional Practice Year allows you to decide how to put your skills into practice. Choose between a business project or a paid placement in industry, depending on the option that is best suited to your future career progression.
Possible study locations and start dates
MSc Healthcare Management
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MSc Healthcare Management with Professional Practice
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Course Content
Modules
Semester 1
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Leading Self for Success (15 credits)This module explores growth mindsets, cultural intelligence and critical thinking to build resilience within the shifting healthcare landscape. You’ll engage in interactive workshops, experiential activities and debating exercises to sharpen your negotiation and oral influence skills. Supported by a dedicated professional coach and comprehensive online resources, you’ll develop a mandatory Professional Development Plan, equipping yourself with the ethical foundation and reflective practices required to navigate complex business challenges, master high impact interviews and confidently secure leadership roles.
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Healthcare Management – Concepts and Frameworks (15 credits)This module provides a critical and applied understanding of the fundamental concepts, frameworks and strategic approaches required to underpin postgraduate study in healthcare management. It will equip non-cognate students with an essential understanding of the core principles and dynamics of healthcare management, exploring key aspects including how health systems operate within complex global contexts, the principles of healthcare marketing and the impact of emerging digital technologies on contemporary healthcare organisations. The module will equip students with a deeper understanding of the global healthcare sector, key management challenges and strategic solutions with a high degree of critical insight.
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Healthcare Marketing and Communications (30 credits)Master the strategic theories and frameworks required to build public trust and engage diverse stakeholder groups across global health systems. This module explores services marketing, stakeholder theory and relationship marketing to drive value and transparency. You’ll engage in healthcare communications planning, developing successful campaigns to educate the public and manage info-flows during emergencies using robust crisis communications strategies. By addressing ethical, sustainable practices alongside digital innovations, you’ll develop the capacity to implement an omnichannel approach to patient centric engagement.
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Semester 2
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Global Healthcare Strategy and Management (30 credits)Master the strategic tools and frameworks required to navigate the political, financial and organisational dynamics of international health systems. This module explores how major actors like the WHO influence global governance, funding structures and universal health outcomes. You’ll engage with advanced service delivery planning and economic evaluation, utilising an immersive simulation or gamification approach to sharpen your real- world decision making. By analysing critical challenges such as global workforce pressures and health inequalities, you’ll develop the capacity to design evidence informed interventions.
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Leadership and Ethics in Healthcare (30 credits)Build a responsible, purpose driven leadership mindset to navigate contemporary clinical environments with integrity. This module explores adaptive and authentic leadership theories alongside robust ethical frameworks to shape positive organisational cultures and optimise patient outcomes. You’ll engage in complex decision-making with conflicting ethical issues and resource constraints, mastering the dynamics of power, influence and professional accountability. By addressing modern challenges, including AI integration in leadership practice, you’ll develop the emotional and cultural intelligence required to manage competing stakeholder interests and uphold human-centric care.
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Semester 3
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Contemporary Issues in Healthcare Management (30 credits)Deconstruct complex operational and clinical challenges through rigorous, real world case study analysis. This module explores global technology trends, changing workforce dynamics and sustainable development goals to address the critical variables shaping modern healthcare systems. You’ll engage in interactive, facilitator led workshops, examining resource allocation, cross-sector collaboration and decision making biases to resolve multi-stakeholder problems. By evaluating conflicting viewpoints and managing organisational resistance to change, you’ll develop the collaborative problem solving and oral communication skills required to influence strategy.
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Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation in Healthcare (30 credits)Drive the evolution of global healthcare from traditional models to data driven, technology enabled environments. Informed by frameworks such as the WHO’s People, Policy, Ethics and Evidence model, this module explores the creative and strategic opportunities of AI to achieve breakthrough innovation. You’ll engage with digital operations management, cultural change and global data protection standards to master the digital leadership required for modern systems. By addressing critical challenges like algorithmic accountability, electronic patient record security and digital exclusion, you’ll develop the imaginative thinking needed to deploy generative AI safely.
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If you have chosen the Professional Practice year, you can undertake a work placement or business project in your second year.
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Teaching and Assessment
How you'll learn
The course is delivered in an interactive way with a real-world focus and learning takes place both inside and outside the classroom environment. Workshop contact hours are used to promote group interaction and facilitate personal support to individuals. Face-to-face learning is supported by online resources, including academic databases such as Emerald, the global market data platform Statista and world business news from the Financial Times, as well as case studies, simulations, learning videos, reading materials and feedback.
Assessment
Assessments are designed to meet the programme and module learning outcomes and are both formative and summative. The formative assessments include the preparation and feedback from teaching sessions such as seminars, workshops, tests and presentations. The summative assessments may include written assignment, group work or studies, project and possibly exams.
Full-time students: Your one-year course will be divided into three semesters of 13 weeks, and you’ll study 60 credits of taught modules per semester.
The Leading Self for Success module is shared with all students studying a Business MSc degree. The remaining six modules are specific to the MSc Healthcare Management course.
Full-time with Professional Practice students: The first year will be identical to the one-year course variation. The second year consists of a work placement or a year doing a business project.
Our Student Journey Advisors at The University of Law will support and advise you throughout your studies with us, ensuring you have the best possible experience.
Our Academic Coaches will offer guidance throughout your course as well as assistance and advice as required during your time with us. They'll also be on hand to help you develop your plans for your future career.
Course dates
Application and booking deadlines vary by intake - take a look at our key application and enrolment deadline dates for more information.
Fees and Applying
Course fees
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London |
£12,650 |
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Outside London |
£12,100 |
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2-year programme with Professional Practice |
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London |
£13,950 |
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Outside London |
£13,350 |
All fees above include a deposit of £250.
The University of Law offers a wide range of scholarships and bursaries which makes studying more affordable than ever. You could also be eligible for a Postgraduate Loan.
If you're an alumnus of the University, you may be eligible to receive our £1,000 General Alumni Discount.
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2026/27 course fees (from 1 July 2026) |
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London |
£19,050 (or £16,050 including a £3,000 International Bursary*) |
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Outside London |
£17,500 (or £15,000 including a £2,500 International Bursary*) |
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2-year programme with Professional Practice |
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London |
£20,950 (or £17,950 including a £3,000 International Bursary*) |
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Outside London |
£19,250 (or £16,750 including a £2,500 International Bursary*) |
All fees above include a deposit of £250.
*Terms and conditions apply. Visit our International Scholarships and Bursaries page for more details.
Entry Requirements
2:2
Undergraduate DegreeUK entry requirements
2:2 or above from a UK Bachelor's degree, or equivalent qualifications.
International entry requirements
An English Language level equivalent to IELTS 6.0 or above with a minimum of 5.5 in each component.
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