School of Nursing and Midwifery

Our Nursing and Midwifery courses provide you with the unique opportunity to enter a dynamic and exciting professional world. The degrees we offer at the University of Chester are designed to suit your needs, whether you’re looking to begin your professional journey or if you want to take the next step in your career in health and social care.

We enable our graduates to enter the workforce equipped with the knowledge and skills to build a successful career, we have maintained our high student employment rates as a result of this approach.

We are committed to providing an excellent student experience and we work in close collaboration with NHS Trusts and private healthcare providers to ensure that our learners can access high-quality placements. Our National Student Survey scores relating to the usefulness of our course content in the workplace, bear testimony to our success in equipping students with skills in innovation and enterprise.

Areas of Expertise Midwifery

Our BSc Midwifery degree has recently been redesigned and revalidated by the NMC to ensure that you will receive the most up-to-date educational experience. This enables you to develop the skills, knowledge, and compassion that lies at the heart of contemporary Midwifery practice.

The course combines on-campus study where you will explore the underpinning theory of Midwifery and you will develop your skills in the safety of our state-of-the-art practice simulation suites. You will also experience supervised clinical placements with one of our local NHS Trust Partners.

Be at the forefront of new life as you learn the fundamentals necessary to becoming a dynamic, compassionate, and competent midwife.

Areas of Expertise Nursing and Healthcare Education

We offer undergraduate degrees in all four fields of Nursing, including Adult, Mental Health, Learning Disability and Children’s Nursing, with Postgraduate options in Adult and Mental Health nursing. Students can expect to benefit from a high-quality educational experience in a friendly and supportive environment, which will help you to develop into a Nurse who makes a real difference in the world.

Your course will combine on-campus study, where you will explore the underpinning theory of your chosen area of Nursing, and you will develop your skills in the safety of our state-of-the-art practice simulation suites. Another key aspect to our Nursing degrees is that you will have access to a wide range of supervised clinical placements.

UCAS Code
Start date: May 2027
Level: Undergraduate
Duration: 1 year