Nursing at Manchester
Considering a career in Nursing?
The School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work within the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences at The University of Manchester has a well-established history of providing nursing courses, being the first School in England to offer a nursing degree and appoint a Professor of Nursing.
Today, we are recognised as one of Europe's leading nursing education and research departments. We provide a broad range of nursing courses including pre-registration nursing, undergraduate and postgraduate post qualifying courses and MPhil/PhD.
- Contact us
- Where we are (maps and travel)
The NHS Careers website has more general information on careers in Nursing:
Clinical Skills Lab
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Video: Tour: Clinical Skills Lab
The School's unique simulated clinical training environment
Becoming a nurse: pre-registration
Course details, entry requirements and applying
- Nursing education
Our approach to teaching and learning in University and clinical practice
Courses
Useful links
- Applying for nursing (UCAS website)
- NHS Student Bursary Scheme
(NHS Business Services Authority website) - Map of our clinical placement sites
(some of the main locations only)
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
For qualified nurses and other health professionals, the School offers a range of flexible programmes and courses. Applicants can choose from a variety of courses to work towards a degree (part-time basis) or postgraduate award, or opt to study a stand-alone course unit to help keep their practice up to date.
- Undergraduate CPD courses
incorporating Nursing Practice (BSc) - Postgraduate CPD courses
Student perspectives
What current/past students think of our programmes
Undergraduates talk about their courses
See all video clips
Michael Wood (Mental Health Nursing student)
"I enjoy living in Manchester and The University of Manchester is regarded as one of the best for nursing."
Collette Clifford (Former MSc student)
"The programme gave me the freedom to challenge and think creatively about nursing and nurtured my leadership skills."
Our research
- About our research
A leading research school in the UK as judged by the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. - Long-term conditions and self care research group
Encompasses research on 'Adult' and 'Children and young people' long-term conditions and self care research - Mental health research group
Includes research on 'Developing and evaluating complex interventions' and 'dementia and ageing' - Cancer, supportive and palliative care research group
Includes research on 'complex symptoms, aftercare and survivorship', 'palliative home care' and 'methodology' - Research projects
Projects associated with each research group
Postgraduate study
Course details, entry requirements and applying
Featured funding opportunities
The School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work forms part of the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) North West Doctoral Training Centre (NWDTC). We are seeking outstanding postgraduates for places on our fully-funded 1+3 (Masters + PhD) and +3 (PhD) training routes starting October 2012.