Midwifery
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    Midwifery

    University College Cork
    University College Cork
    Ireland
    Ireland, Cork
    University Rank:#273
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    Duration2 year(s)
    Next IntakeSeptember 15, 2026

    Midwifery

    About

  • An MSc Midwifery develops your skills to contribute to evidence-based maternity care.
  • An MSc enhances career development into clinical, management, leadership, specialist midwife roles, advanced midwife practice, practice development, research and education.
  • With an MSc Midwifery, you can take on roles that influence maternity policies, improve clinical guidelines, and enhance perinatal care.
  • You will be taught and supervised by a multidisciplinary team of academics and clinicians who are experts in their disciplines.
  • We recognise that you may be working full time therefore this programme is delivered via classroom teaching and online learning.

    • Disciplines

    Medicine and Health

    Requirements

    Entry Requirements

    For full details of the non-EU application procedure visit our how to apply pages for international students.

    • In UCC, we use the term programme and course interchangeably to describe what a person has registered to study in UCC and its constituent colleges, schools, and departments.
    • Note that not all courses are open to international/non-EU applicants, please check the fact file above. For more information contact the International Office.
    English Language Requirements

    Applicants who are non-native speakers of the English language must meet the university-approved English language requirements. Visit our PG English Language Requirements page for more information.

    English Requirements

    • IELTSMin 6.5
    • TOEFLMin 90

    English Program Requirements

    English Language Requirements (for Non-Irish EU applicants)

    Teaching in Irish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) is normally through the medium of English; therefore all applicants are required to demonstrate a high level of competence in the English Language.

    Applicants whose first language is not English must provide evidence of equivalent competence in English Language through their school leaving examination or matriculation examination or by achieving the minimum standard (there may be higher levels for matriculation and/or particular programmes in individual institutions) in a recognised English language test, as specified below (note applicants are assessed on the results of a single sitting only):

    UCC Language Centre Pre-sessional Programmes

    These programmes are available to assist students who:

    • Have not achieved their required level of English for acceptance onto their undergraduate or postgraduate programme
    • Feel they do not have the academic or general English language skills necessary to succeed at the University

     Find out more about the Language Centre's Pre-Sessional Programmes.

    Career

    On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:

  • Practise with greater insight of the research-base, ethical, socio-political and professional underpinnings of midwifery and health care in Ireland;
  • Exercise enhanced personal and professional competence through accountability and autonomy in midwifery practice;
  • Demonstrate higher levels of judgment in the practice of midwifery through the generation of midwifery knowledge for innovative, research-based midwifery practice;
  • Act as innovators and leaders and contribute to practice development in midwifery;
  • Teach others from a broad and in-depth knowledge base, derived from critical reflection on midwifery practice and the development of critical inquiry in midwifery
  • Exercise accountability and autonomy within the clinical and professional boundaries of midwifery;
  • Promote excellence in assessment and implementation of research-based practice, within agreed inter-disciplinary protocols in midwifery practice;
  • Demonstrate high levels of judgment in the practice of nursing/midwifery through the generation of knowledge for innovative midwifery practice.

    • Fee Information

    Midwifery

    University College Cork

    University College Cork

    Ireland

    Ireland, Cork

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