Health Sciences University · Bournemouth, South West
Health Sciences University runs 2 approved courses leading to registration as an occupational therapist — degree apprenticeship and pre-registration master’s, taught in Bournemouth, South West. This page sets out what each one awards, how long it takes, what the published entry requirements are, and how the offer compares with other providers nearby.
Health Sciences University runs 2 approved programmes in this subject, which is unusual enough to be worth understanding — they are not alternatives so much as different starting points. All of them are approved by the HCPC, and that approval is the point of the qualification: completing an approved programme is what entitles you to apply for registration, and only registrants may use the protected title — “occupational therapist”.
The offer here is at master's level, so it is aimed at people who already hold a relevant first degree rather than at school leavers. Pre-registration master's programmes cover the same regulated curriculum and the same supervised practice hours as an undergraduate degree, compressed into a shorter and more demanding timetable. The apprenticeship route runs in the opposite order to the others. You apply to an employer, not to the university; the employer sponsors the training, you are paid a salary while you study, and you do not pay the tuition fee yourself. The constraint is supply — apprenticeship places depend on a local employer having funding and a vacancy in the year you want to start.
No typical offer has been published in the open data for any occupational therapist course at Health Sciences University, so this page does not state one — a plausible-looking grade requirement invented here would be worse than nothing. The course links below go to the record the listing was built from, and the university's own admissions page is the version that binds. Recorded start month: January.
Where you train shapes where you are placed. Practice placements on these programmes are arranged with NHS trusts, health boards and independent providers around the university, so a course in Bournemouth, South West means learning that patch's services and its referral routes, and meeting the clinicians who run them. That is worth weighing against a more distant offer: placement travel is real and can be daily, and the region you train in is where your first job is most likely to be. For context, 56 UK universities in this dataset train occupational therapists at pre-registration level, so there is usually more than one geography open to you.
| Course | Route | Award | Length | Campus | UCAS | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy (Integrated Degree Apprenticeship) | Apprenticeship | BSc (Hons) | Bournemouth | Approved | ||
| MSc Occupational Therapy (pre-registration) | MSc pre-reg | MSc | 2 years | Bournemouth | Approved |
Only what the published record actually states. Requirements change every cycle — confirm against the university's own page before you apply.
BSc (Hons), Degree apprenticeship, Bournemouth and full-time
No typical offer is published for this course in the open data. The course record and the university's own admissions page carry the current requirement.
MSc, Pre-registration master’s, 2 years, Bournemouth and full-time
No typical offer is published for this course in the open data. The course record and the university's own admissions page carry the current requirement.
Full course record · Course page at Health Sciences University
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