London South Bank University · London, London
London South Bank University runs 4 approved courses leading to registration as an occupational therapist — degree apprenticeship, undergraduate degree and pre-registration master’s, taught in London, London. 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.
London South Bank University runs 4 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 choice here is between the undergraduate degree and the pre-registration master's. The undergraduate route is the one you take from school or college and it is the longer, gentler path. The master's is for people who already hold a relevant first degree: it covers the same regulated curriculum and the same supervised practice hours in a compressed timetable, which usually means shorter holidays and back-to-back placement blocks rather than an easier year. 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 London South Bank 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.
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 London, London 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) Occupation Therapy Integrated Apprenticeship Degree | Apprenticeship | BSc (Hons) | London | Approved | ||
| BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy | BSc | BSc (Hons) | 3 years | London | Approved | |
| MSc Occupational Therapy | MSc pre-reg | MSc | London | Approved | ||
| Pg Dip Occupational Therapy | MSc pre-reg | PgDip | London | 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, London and part-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.
BSc (Hons), Undergraduate degree, 3 years, London and full-time and part-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, London 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.
PgDip, Pre-registration master’s, London 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.
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