Physiotherapist courses

Physiotherapist integrated master’s courses

10 integrated master’s courses for physiotherapists, at 8 UK universities, all 4 years across England and Scotland.

MSci

10 MSci courses 139 across all routes

8 Universities

4 years Typical length

7 of 10 Applied for through UCAS The rest take direct applications

What the integrated master’s route means here

An integrated master’s runs undergraduate and master’s-level study as a single continuous programme, so you enter as an undergraduate and leave with a master’s award. You apply through UCAS in the normal way. The attraction is that the extra level is funded as part of an undergraduate course rather than as separate postgraduate study.

10 of the 139 approved physiotherapist courses follow this route. The rest are undergraduate degree (58), pre-registration master’s (54) and degree apprenticeship (17) , and all of them lead to the same HCPC registration and the same starting job. Choose the route that matches where you are now — school leaver, graduate, or already working for an employer who might sponsor you — rather than the one that sounds most senior.

7 of these 10 courses carry a UCAS code, so you apply through UCAS; the remainder take applications direct. 5 publish a typical offer in a citable form, shown in the table below. Whatever the route, the programme has to include 1,000 hours of assessed practice placement, and that is where most of the travel and most of the unpaid time goes.

Compare these courses

Physiotherapist integrated master’s courses
University	Course	Award	Length	UCAS	Typical offer	Location
Brunel University London	MSci Physiotherapy	MSci	4 years	B161	ABB	Uxbridge, England
Keele University	MSci Physiotherapy	MSci	4 years	B160	ABB	Keele, England
Keele University	MSci Physiotherapy (with International year)	MSci	Not published	Direct	Not published	Keele, England
Queen Margaret University	Master of Physiotherapy (MPhys)	MPhys	4 years	B160	AAB	Edinburgh, Scotland
Robert Gordon University	Master of Physiotherapy (MPhys)	MPhys	4 years	B160	Not published	Aberdeen, Scotland
The University of St Mark and St John	Integrated Masters in Physiotherapy	MPhysio	4 years	IMPH	Not published	Plymouth, England
University of Birmingham	MSci Physiotherapy	MSci	4 years	B160	AAB	Birmingham, England
University of Birmingham	MSci Physiotherapy, with international year	MSci	Not published	Direct	Not published	Birmingham, England
University of Bradford	MPhysio Sport and Exercise Medicine	MPhysio	Not published	Direct	Not published	Bradford, England
University of Plymouth	MPhysio (Hons) Physiotherapy	MPhysio	4 years	B161	AAB	Plymouth, England