Global Healthcare Management MSc

Study level: Postgraduate
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The Global Healthcare Management MSc course aims to build the leadership and management capabilities for those wishing to pursue careers within healthcare, social care, and third sector organisations.

Year of entry

Location

Coventry University (Coventry)

Study mode

Full-time

Duration

1 year full-time

Course code

HLST274

Start date

September 2025
January 2026
May 2026

At Coventry University, we continuously review the courses we offer to ensure we reflect industry-relevant emerging best practice and technology. As a result, this course is undergoing continuous improvement assessment and will be launched with a renewed curriculum starting in September 2025. Module content and titles will be updated. Course title, learning outcomes and assessments may also change. We expect our new curriculum to be fully updated by January 2025. Please return to this page to see the final course details.


Course overview

This course aims to support the enhancement of your personal and professional knowledge, develop your abilities to think creatively and apply entrepreneurial skills to deliver quality health and social care services and respond to the global health challenges now and in the future.

  • Develop a detailed understanding of leadership and management combined with an examination of contemporary and global challenges within healthcare management.
  • This course features a range of current and management theories relevant to the health and social care sectors. In addition, it will also explore multi-cultural and international dimensions of healthcare management.
  • Provide you with an opportunity to undertake a Management Project module, developing a business case for a service improvement or enhancement which will help to develop relevant workplace skills and experience.
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Rated Gold Overall

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5 QS Stars for Teaching and Facilities

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Why you should study this course

  • You will be supported by an academic and personal tutor throughout your studies and receive individual or group supervision whilst undertaking the Transforming Healthcare Business Case Project
  • The course includes the Professional Development module, in which you could get the opportunity to study alongside postgraduate students from a range of disciplines and professions, across different faculties, with the potential to provide rich learning experiences and networking opportunities.
  • Learning and teaching will be facilitated by a team of highly qualified and academic staff from within the School of Health and Care with a range of professional backgrounds who currently have relevant subject and global expertise in business, health and social care, management and leadership (staff may be subject to change).

Accreditation and professional recognition

Chartered Management Institute

Chartered Management Institute

This course includes a 10-credit module accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), Leading and Creating Organisational Health and Wellbeing. Students who successfully complete the module and meet the CMI learning outcomes will gain a Level 7 Certificate in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice.


It was very challenging but I would say to anyone wanting to do the course or to go back to education that it is so worthwhile. The course has given me a wider view, not just of what we are facing as challenges in our local NHS, but on a global scale to improve the lives of the people we are serving. It has given me more skills and knowledge and is something I will build on and take into my workplace. I would recommend it to everybody.

May Parsons, Global Healthcare Management MSc, quoted December 2022
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What you'll study

This course features a range of current and management theories relevant to the health and social care sectors. In addition, it also explores multi-cultural and international dimensions of healthcare management. The course is designed to develop your entrepreneurial skills and offer support with seeking employment opportunities2.

Modules

*Teaching and Learning related to the Global Healthcare Management Portfolio is undertaken across the course, assessment undertaken in modules in each semester contribute to the final assessment, undertaken in semester 3.

We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.


How you'll learn

The learning required of master’s students requires you to be mainly self-directed and independent in your study, supported through a variety of methods:

  • Face-to-face/online teaching in which you engage with learning materials and activities hosted on our online platform, further explored through either campus-based seminars
  • Individual or group supervision
  • Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) hosting lecture notes and supportive material
  • Digitised reading materials, accessed through the university library.

Teaching contact hours

In a typical week you will be required to engage with around 12 hours of blended or online teaching, including seminars, workshops and tutorials. Master’s students are strongly encouraged to prepare for the seminars and workshops that they are timetabled for, which will usually include some group work activities enabling you to fully engage in discussion and debate with each other to facilitate your learning. There is a strong link between students who undertake reading and self-directed independent study outside the formal teaching sessions and their achievement on the course.

Additionally, you will be expected to undertake significant self-directed study of approximately 36 hours each week, depending on the demands of individual modules.

In semester 1, weekly support sessions are timetabled alongside module teaching to facilitate the development of key study skills to foster positive learning experiences and successful achievement of coursework assignments.

The Transforming Healthcare Business Case Project requires you to work closely with an academic tutor across the final semester, either in 1:1 or group tutorials in the development of the coursework.

The contact hours may be made up of a combination of face-to-face teaching, individual and group tutorials, and online classes and tutorials.

As an innovative and enterprising institution, the University may seek to utilise emerging technologies within the student experience. For all courses (whether on-campus, blended, or distance learning), the university may deliver certain contact hours and assessments via online technologies and methods.

Since COVID-19, we have delivered our courses in a variety of forms, in line with public authority guidance, decisions, or orders and we will continue to adapt our delivery as appropriate. Whether on campus or online, our key priority is staff and student safety.


Assessment

This course will be assessed using a variety of methods which will vary depending upon the module.

Assessment methods include:

  • Written assignments such as essays
  • Written reflections and Personal Development Plans
  • Business case reports
  • Individual and group presentations
  • Social media postings
  • Posters
  • Portfolio.

The Coventry University Group assessment strategy ensures that our courses are fairly assessed and allows us to monitor student progression towards achieving the intended learning outcomes.


International experience opportunities

The subject group has enabled students to attend international conferences and undertake field trips to Greece and Cyprus in recent years, gaining experience of other models of healthcare delivery and management of services2.


Entry requirements

Typical offer for 2024/25 entry.

There may be three points of entry in September, January and May, subject to demand. All applicants must demonstrate some recent postgraduate healthcare sector work experience.

Specific entry criteria:

  • Applicants must normally be an honours graduate of a clinical or health/social care-related discipline with a 2:2 degree or above, obtained from a recognised university/HE institution, or hold an equivalent qualification acceptable to the university in an area related to the named award.
  • Applicants whose first language is not English must demonstrate proficiency in the English language equivalent to IELTS 6.5, with no component less than 6.0. Alternatively, students may be admitted with IELTS 6.0 if they attend and pass a compulsory five-week pre-sessional English course, operated by Coventry University, before joining the MSc course.

We recognise a breadth of qualifications, speak to one of our advisers today to find out how we can help you.

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You can view our full list of country specific entry requirements on our Entry requirements page.

Alternatively, visit our International hub for further advice and guidance on finding in-country agents and representatives, joining our in-country events and how to apply.

Typical entry requirements

There may be three points of entry in September, January and May, subject to demand.
All applicants must demonstrate some recent postgraduate healthcare sector work experience.

Specific entry criteria for the Global Healthcare Management MSc:

  • Applicants must normally be an honours graduate of a clinical or health/social care related discipline with a 2:2 degree or above, obtained from a recognised university/HE institution, or hold an equivalent qualification acceptable to the university in an area related to the named award.
  • Applicants whose first language is not English must demonstrate proficiency in the English language equivalent to IELTS 6.5, with no component less than 6.0.

English language requirements

  • IELTS: 6.5, with no components less than 6.0. Alternatively students may be admitted with IELTS 6.0 if they attend and pass a compulsory five-week pre-sessional English course, operated by Coventry University, before joining the MSc course.

If you don't meet the English language requirements, you can achieve the level you need by successfully completing a pre-sessional English programme before you start your course.

For more information on our approved English language tests visit our English language requirements page.

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Fees and funding

Student Full-time Part-time
UK, Ireland*, Channel Islands or Isle of Man 2025/26 fees TBC
2024/25 fees -£11,200  
Not available
EU 2025/26 fees TBC
2024/25 fees - £11,200 per year with EU Support Bursary**
2025/26 fees TBC
2024/25 fees -£18,600 per year without EU Support Bursary**
Not available
International 2025/26 fees TBC
2024/25 fees -£18,600  
Not available

For advice and guidance on tuition fees3 and student loans visit our Postgraduate Finance page.

We offer a range of International scholarships to students all over the world. For more information, visit our International Scholarships page.

Tuition fees cover the cost of your teaching, assessments, facilities and support services. There may be additional costs not covered by this fee such as accommodation and living costs, recommended reading books, stationery, printing and re-assessments should you need them.

The following are additional costs not included in the tuition fees:

  • Any optional overseas field trips or visits: £400+ per trip.

*Irish student fees

The rights of Irish residents to study in the UK are preserved under the Common Travel Area arrangement. If you are an Irish student and meet the residency criteria, you can study in England, pay the same level of tuition fees as English students and utilise the Tuition Fee Loan.

**EU Support Bursary

Following the UK's exit from the European Union, we are offering financial support to all eligible EU students who wish to study an undergraduate or a postgraduate degree with us full-time. This bursary will be used to offset the cost of your tuition fees to bring them in line with that of UK students. Students studying a degree with a foundation year with us are not eligible for the bursary.


Facilities

The course will take place on our Coventry University main campus, including access to the state-of-the-art Alison Gingell Building which features a number of innovative classrooms and facilities4.

Our multi-million-pound Alison Gingell Building features a range of mock healthcare settings, including hospital wards, ambulance, therapy suites and community houses, allowing you to replicate real-life simulations.

Students working in Allison Gingell building facilities

Alison Gingell Building

Get hands-on experience simulating real-life situations with our therapy suites, community houses and other real-life environments.

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Mock Hospital Wards

Our mock hospital wards and critical care settings give you the chance to experience patient scenarios in a real-world environment.

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Community Houses

Our two full-size community homes can be used for sessions simulating working with patients outside of a hospital setting.


Careers and opportunities

On completion of the courses, some graduates have moved into a range of junior and middle management or clinical leadership roles in health, social care, or third sector settings, either by securing positions in the UK or returning to their home country. Some graduates have chosen to engage in further research-based study related to Leadership and Management in Health by securing a PhD studentship either at Coventry University or other UK-based universities.

Successfully completing a Global Healthcare Management MSc is an excellent way to build leadership and management capabilities for those wishing to pursue careers within healthcare, social care and third sector organisations.

The learning and development demanded by both courses aims to give graduates the skills for senior-level employment, be it related to a discrete service department or hospital unit, private or publicly funded hospital, service or healthcare company. It encourages students to develop the skillset for posts in, for example, local, regional, national or even international government policy-making bodies (for example Professional Bodies, Ministries of Health, World Health Organization).

Opportunities within health-related industries - e.g. the pharmaceutical industry - may also be relevant for some graduates.


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