Speech and Language Therapy (Pre-Registration) MSc

Course facts

Award

MSc

Route

Pre-registration master’s

Length

2 years

Study modes

full-time and part-time

Starts

September

Campus

Edinburgh

Where

Scotland, Scotland

Regulator

HCPC — approved

Professional body

Accredited by Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

Everything above is taken from the published record for this programme. Rows that are absent are absent from the source data, not omitted for brevity.

Entry requirements

Notes

QMU asks for an upper second class honours degree or above, plus evidence of experience of working with or supporting people with communication impairments.

This is the typical offer, which is the level the university publishes as its normal requirement — not a guaranteed threshold and not a maximum. Offers move with demand, and a strong application with relevant care experience is treated differently from a bare set of grades. Almost every provider also requires an enhanced criminal-records check and occupational health clearance before you can go on placement, and many interview.

Outcomes

Where the national surveys publish figures for this course, they appear here. Small cohorts are routinely suppressed in the official releases, which is why a tile can read "not published" for a course that is running perfectly well.

Outcome figures are worth less on this kind of course than on most. Pre-registration programmes feed a regulated profession with a national pay scale, so a graduate from any approved course starts on the same band as a graduate from any other. Earnings differences between providers mostly reflect where graduates end up living and whether they take NHS or private work, not the quality of the teaching. As a reference point, a newly qualified speech and language therapist in Scotland starts on NHS band 5, which begins at £34,544 in 2026/27. See the full pay picture.

Paying for it

Full-time pre-registration study in Scotland is normally funded through a tuition fee loan and a maintenance loan from the student finance body for the nation you study in, topped up by whatever health-specific support that nation runs. Allied health students are treated more generously than most because placements make part-time work hard to sustain.

The NHS Learning Support Fund is an England-only scheme, so it does not apply here. Scotland runs its own arrangements instead.

All funding and bursaries · rules change every academic year, so check the current terms before you apply.

How this course compares

There are 50 other approved speech and language therapist courses in the UK, 4 of them in Scotland. Because every one of them leads to the same registration, the differences that actually matter are practical: how long the course runs, whether the award is a bachelor's or a master's, where the placements are and what the university asks for at entry.