Medical Sciences (Final Year Entry)

BSc (Hons)

UCAS code: B290

Start dates: September 2025 / September 2026

Full time: 1 Year

Location: Headington

Department(s): School of Biological and Medical Sciences

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Overview

It’s our belief that if you’re smart enough and curious enough, you should have the opportunity to study on our BSc (Hons) Medical Sciences degree. If you love solving problems and want to understand all kinds of illnesses, then Medical Sciences is for you.

This final-year entry route is designed for students with a BTEC National diploma Level 5 in Science. The diploma is equivalent to 2 years of degree study. You’ll join our department in the third year, ready to graduate with the same degree as students who came via the A-level route.

On the course, you’ll develop detailed practical and scientific knowledge. You’ll gain a good understanding of the human body in health and disease.

Through a mix of academic and practical learning, you’ll gain the skills employers look for. These include lab techniques, data handling, computing, report writing, oral presentations, and teamwork.

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Why Oxford Brookes University?

  • Expert teaching

    On most of your modules, you will learn from professionals such as bioscience researchers, practising clinical scientists and physiologists, who work with us to co-deliver your module learning, helping you build insights into how your growing  knowledge and skills are used every day by professionals in a range of career paths.

  • Excellent grounding

    The degree provides a great foundation for applying to graduate-entry Medicine and Physicians’s Associate courses. It builds on core medical science subjects.

  • Strong industry links

    Our links with industry are positive. Students go on to work for local hospitals and research institutions. We also regularly welcome guest lecturers from industry.

  • Research experience

    You’ll work with our academics, who are active in research groups, and you may join one of them to explore a novel question for your project.

Course details

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Study modules

Teaching for this course takes place Face to Face and you can expect around 8 hours of contact time per week.
In addition to this, you should also anticipate a workload of 1,200 hours per year. Teaching usually takes place Monday to Friday, between 9.00am and 6.00pm.

Contact hours involve activities such as lectures, seminars, practicals, assessments, and academic advising sessions. These hours differ by year of study and typically increase significantly during placements or other types of work-based learning.

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Please note: As our courses are reviewed regularly as part of our quality assurance framework, the modules you can choose from may vary from those shown here. The structure of the course may also mean some modules are not available to you.

Careers

The BSc Hons Medical Sciences (final-year entry) degree will open up many wonderful doors for our graduates. Students on our similar final-year courses have gone on to work in diagnostic clinics, diagnostic labs, biomedical companies, or to complete Master’s or PhD studentships.

Popular roles include:

  • biochemist
  • biotechnologist
  • medical research scientist
  • lab technician
  • forensic scientist
  • clinical research associate
  • microbiologist.

Medical science is a practical subject and employers value our graduates for their understanding and experience of important scientific equipment.

We’re fortunate to be in Oxford. The city and its surrounding areas provide an excellent network of relevant bioscience companies and institutions for professional work opportunities.

Entry requirements

Further offer details

Students will usually have achieved a Diploma of Higher Education with at least 55% or a Higher National Diploma with a Merit profile in a relevant discipline such as Applied Sciences (Biology) or Biomedical Science, or an equivalent relevant Level 5 qualification of 240 CATS subject to individual credit rating by Oxford Brookes University.

Tuition fees

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Questions about fees?

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Tuition fees

2024 / 25
Home (UK) full time
£9,250

International full time
£16,900

2025 / 26
Home (UK) full time
£9,250*

International full time
£17,750

Questions about fees?

Contact Student Finance on:

+44 (0)1865 534400

financefees@brookes.ac.uk

* Following the government’s announcement of 4 November 2024, we expect to increase our undergraduate tuition fees for UK students to £9,535 from the start of the 2025/26 academic year. Please visit The Education Hub for more information about the changes. We will confirm our fees for 2025/26 as soon as possible.

Please note, tuition fees for Home students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students in line with an inflationary amount determined by government. Oxford Brookes University intends to maintain its fees for new and returning Home students at the maximum permitted level.

Tuition fees for International students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students. 

The following factors will be taken into account by the University when it is setting the annual fees: inflationary measures such as the retail price indices, projected increases in University costs, changes in the level of funding received from Government sources, admissions statistics and access considerations including the availability of student support. 

How and when to pay

Tuition fee instalments for the semester are due by the Monday of week 1 of each semester. Students are not liable for full fees for that semester if they leave before week 4. If the leaving date is after week 4, full fees for the semester are payable.

  • For information on payment methods please see our Make a Payment page.
  • For information about refunds please visit our Refund policy page

Financial support and scholarships

For general sources of financial support, see our Fees and funding pages.

Additional costs

Please be aware that some courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees. Specific additional costs for this course are detailed below.

Programme changes:
On rare occasions we may need to make changes to our course programmes after they have been published on the website. For more information, please visit our changes to programmes page.