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Studied on campus or 100% online, this Nursing MSc course is designed to offer continuing education and professional development to nurses. It aims to enhance your knowledge to underpin practice in a wide range of care settings.
Year of entry
Location
Coventry University (Coventry)
100% online study
Study mode
Full-time
Part-time
Duration
1 year full-time
Up to 5 years part-time
Course code
On campus - HLST306
Online - HLST307
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.
The course is designed to provide continuing professional development (CPD) to a widening group of UK and internationally-based nurses. It aims to develop nurses in support of the global health economy and their contribution to nursing practice in a range of contexts.
This course has been designed following extensive consultation with stakeholders and professional collaborators to ensure its relevance and ability to develop nursing leaders and agents of change.
You will be encouraged to consider how contemporary issues in nursing relate to your current practice and how what you learn can make a difference to and improve the experience of patients/service users.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to analyse approaches to support leadership, quality and service improvement and project management within policy and professional frameworks of nursing. You will also be able to demonstrate a professional approach to self-development in a broad range of competencies relevant to nursing across national borders and areas of practice including digital literacy, critical decision-making, problem-solving, presentation and teamwork.
The course may be studied on-campus at Coventry University or online.
The enhanced skills and knowledge successful graduates of this course bring to their work provide a range of benefits, not only to the student but also to their employer and patients/service users.
Student benefits:
Employer benefits:
Patients/Service Users/Carers receive effective and comprehensive care from a professional who is:
Patients/clients have access to, and benefit from, enhanced quality in healthcare services.
As part of this course, you will undertake a professional development module which is currently accredited1 by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) for the 2023-24 intake. Upon successful completion of the module, you will gain the CMI Level 7 Certificate in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice at no additional cost. Further details can be found under the module section and on the Professional Development module homepage.
Everything was well organised including the teaching which enabled our studies. I have learned so much and am wearing a different lens in nursing now – I love this programme.
Sela Fakatou, Nursing MSc, 2022
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.
These modules are absolutely brilliant – so relevant for nursing leadership today.
Aisling Crombie, Nursing MSc, 2022
Studied on campus or 100% online, you will be encouraged to take an independent and self-directed approach to your study and to use the range of learning resources available to support your academic development. Individual modules adopt a range of teaching/learning strategies including workshops and seminars, student presentations and lectures.
This course can be offered on a part-time basis. Part-time students - in discussion with the course directors - choose from three modules in each semester and the actual route varies between individuals. Typically, students studying part-time will complete one 20-credit module each semester with the remaining year devoted to study for the CMI module and the dissertation. Request further information about part-time study.
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Full-time students will have on average 10 hours of contact teaching time per week, part-time study hours will vary depending on the number of modules you choose.
Additionally, you will be expected to undertake significant self-directed study of approximately 10 hours each week, depending on the demands of individual modules.
There are also optional individual or group tutorials, which will normally be approximately 5 hours per module.
The Nursing MSc course team have developed comprehensive content for all modules to support your learning on our digital education platform.
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 tools are varied and designed to maximise your opportunity to demonstrate comprehensive knowledge, critical thinking and application of theory to nursing practice.
Assessment methods include:
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.
Typical offer for 2024/25 entry.
Student | Full-time | Part-time |
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UK, Ireland*, Channel Islands or Isle of Man | 2025/26 fees TBC 2024/25 fees -£11,200 |
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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:
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.
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.
Our aim is to offer you sector-leading facilities4.
Our Alison Gingell Building features mock hospital wards built to NHS standards, an operating theatre, critical care settings and other real-life nursing environments.
Learn how to work with patients outside of a hospital setting in our simulated, two full-size community homes, specifically built for teaching.
Our midwifery suite is equipped with delivery facilities including water birth options. Student midwives also use mannequins to simulate routine and emergency care for mothers and babies.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
This course provides an opportunity to learn from academic staff and clinical experts (subject to availability), to develop critical thinking and decision-making skills to support innovation, challenge and to develop the skills to support you in leading a clinical nursing practice.
Past students are working as nurses in a range of acute and secondary care settings in the UK and other European countries. These nurses have both senior roles as leaders and managers of teams or may be newly qualified staff choosing to achieve their master’s degree at an early stage in their career.