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Course overview
The Audiology BSc is a three-year course that aims to train students to join the healthcare workforce as audiologists. Upon successful completion of the course, it is anticipated that students will be able to graduate into a rewarding and dynamic career as an audiologist, with many transferable skills and future training offering further career development.
The course includes a total of 31 weeks of clinical placement. The distribution of these 31 weeks through the course depends in part on placement providers, but we have given an indication of what to expect below.
Please note that clinical placement attendance is a mandatory part of the course. Due to the clinical demands of the course, you may be required to attend clinical placements, or on-campus clinical skills teaching and assessments, outside of normal term-time teaching periods. Also, please note that practical skills labs and clinical placements may be subject to change and are under continuous review.
The first year will provide you with a full grounding in the science that underpins healthcare and audiology. You will learn about hearing loss in adults and how it can be managed or treated. From the first year of your course, you will benefit from specialist clinical training in our state-of-the-art Clinical Skills Lab. This will give you access to industry-standard equipment to learn how to carry out clinical procedures such as hearing tests and using an otoscope to conduct ear examinations. You will spend up to a week observing a range of audiology procedures being carried out on patients in some of London’s top audiology clinics.
In your second year, you will study the diagnosis and management of hearing loss in adults in further detail, including how to fit and program hearing aids. You will become familiar with a range of modern hearing technology.
You will learn about hearing loss in children, tinnitus, and balance disorders. In parallel to your clinical studies, you will study research methods and data analysis techniques, and choose a research project topic for your final year (similar to a dissertation in other courses). You will develop your clinical and communication skills with more advanced module teaching and complete a 6-10-week clinical placement at an audiology clinic. The clinical placements are some of the most rewarding parts of your course, where you will begin to use your clinical skills and knowledge with real patients and see how audiologists make measurable improvements to patients’ lives.
In your final year, you will complete your research project and choose from a range of audiology topics to develop your knowledge in areas that interest you. You will continue to develop yourself as a competent and confident clinician by learning about professional practice and undertaking a 20-24-week clinical placement to prepare you for working professionally as an audiologist.
What this course will give you
You will receive top-rated teaching from expert researchers and clinicians at the UCL Ear Institute, a globally renowned centre for audiovestibular education and world-leading research. You will also work with professionals from the wider audiology community thanks to our many links with leading hospitals and clinics across the UK.
From your first year, you will begin to use equipment and facilities used by audiologists in clinical settings to develop your own clinical skills.
As well as developing your clinical skills, the course will allow you to gain experience delivering audiology services in real clinical settings on your integrated placements at NHS teaching hospitals, hearing aid dispensers and private sector clinics. On your placements, you will shadow and work with a registered audiologist to gain first-hand experience in completing clinical assessments and hearing aid fittings. By your third year, you will have developed enough confidence and gained enough experience to complete audiological assessment and rehabilitation while being supervised on your placements.
You will meet members of the public with audiological disorders who will share their experiences and work with you to enhance your understanding of ear-related conditions. Working as an audiologist is a very rewarding career and often appeals to people who enjoy both problem-solving and helping others. Audiologists often make significant improvements to patients’ lives, as hearing loss and ear disorders can be isolating and detrimental to people’s quality of life.
Furthermore, our small class sizes (fewer than 45 students) provide a sense of community and allow informal and interactive teaching where you can easily ask questions. Your teaching will be based at the Ear Institute, which has a strong sense of community with academic and social events planned throughout the year. You will be joining a faculty of researchers, academics and students who are all passionate about advancing the understanding of hearing loss and related disorders and improving outcomes for patients. Students are also encouraged to engage with the whole of the UCL student community with opportunities to join sports clubs and societies or attend a wide variety of campus events (from volunteering fairs to movie screenings).
Additionally:
- UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS University Rankings 2010-2025).
- UCL is ranked in the top ten in Europe for employability (QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2022)
- We work closely with NHS departments, private hospitals, and commercial hearing aid dispensers in and around London to provide placement and observation opportunities for student and are partnered with the Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals.