BSc Speech and Language Therapy / Overview

Year of entry: 2024

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Degree awarded: BSc(Hons) Speech and Language
Duration: 3 years
Typical A-level offer: AAB
Typical contextual A-level offer: ABB

Find out more about contextual admissions.
Refugee/care-experienced offer: Applicants who have been in local authority care for more than three months or have refugee status may be eligible for an offer two grades below the standard requirements.

Find out more about contextual admissions.
Typical International Baccalaureate offer: We require 35 points overall, with 6,6,5 in Higher Level subjects; Full entry requirements
How to apply: Apply through UCAS .

Course overview

Our three-year course is approved by the Health and Care Professions Council, enabling you to apply for registration after graduation.
Learn from our Speech and Language Therapy Service User Group , whose input helps inform the content of our course.

Speech and Language Therapy and The University of Manchester

Open days

Attending an open day is a great way to find out what studying at Manchester is like. Find out about our upcoming open days .

Fees

Tuition fees for home students commencing their studies in September 2024 will be £9,250 per annum. Tuition fees for international students will be £29,500 per annum. For general information please see the undergraduate finance pages.

Please note that future inflationary increases will be applied to each subsequent year of the course, subject to government regulations on fee increases.

If this is your second tuition fee loan for an undergraduate course: Students who already have a degree and are planning to undertake a nursing, midwifery or allied health profession subject as a second degree will now also have access to student loans through the student loans system.

See more information about changes to NHS bursaries on the government's website .

Additional expenses

You will complete three block clinical placements during the course. You will be expected to pay upfront travel and/or accommodation costs and then apply to get these reimbursed.

Policy on additional costs

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

Scholarships/sponsorships

As per the government announcement, all UK speech and language students on courses from September 2020 will receive a payment of at least £5,000 a year which they will not need to pay back. The funding will be given to all new and continuing degree-level nursing, midwifery and many allied health students from September 2020. More information can be found on the NHS website.

Please note, eligibility criteria for the new funding will be the same as the wider NHS Learning Support Fund payable to students ordinarily resident in the UK and studying at a university in England. Find out about the financial support available to students starting at Manchester.

Find out about the financial support available to students starting at Manchester.

Contact details

School/Faculty: Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
Telephone: +44 (0)161 529 4563
Email: ug.slt@manchester.ac.uk
Website: https://www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/study/speech-language-therapy/
School/Faculty overview: Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

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