Queen Margaret University · Edinburgh, Scotland
Queen Margaret University runs 3 approved courses leading to registration as a dietitian — undergraduate degree, integrated master’s and pre-registration master’s, taught in Edinburgh, Scotland. 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.
Queen Margaret University runs 3 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 — “dietitian” or “dietician”.
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. Across the 3 programmes here, course length runs from 2 years to 4 years.
A typical offer is published for every course listed here, and it is set out in full below. Read it as the shape of the offer rather than a promise: entry to these courses is almost always interviewed, and an offer is normally conditional on an enhanced criminal record check and occupational health clearance as well as on grades. One course carries a UCAS code (B410), so that application goes through UCAS rather than direct to the university. Recorded start month: September.
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 Edinburgh, Scotland 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, 31 UK universities in this dataset train dietitians at pre-registration level, so there is usually more than one geography open to you.
| Course | Route | Award | Length | Campus | UCAS | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BSc (Hons) Dietetics | BSc | BSc (Hons) | Edinburgh | Approved | ||
| Master of Dietetics (MDiet) | MSci | MDiet | 4 years | Edinburgh | B410 | Approved |
| MSc Dietetics (Pre-Registration) | MSc pre-reg | MSc | 2 years | Edinburgh | Approved |
Only what the published record actually states. Requirements change every cycle — confirm against the university's own page before you apply.
BSc (Hons), Undergraduate degree, Edinburgh and full-time
Full course record · Course page at Queen Margaret University
MDiet, Integrated master’s, 4 years, Edinburgh and full-time
Full course record · Course page at Queen Margaret University
MSc, Pre-registration master’s, 2 years, Edinburgh and full-time
Full course record · Course page at Queen Margaret University
Support is set by the nation you study in, not by the university, so these are the schemes that apply to a course at Queen Margaret University.
The providers whose placement circuits cover the same patch — the realistic second and third choices on the same application.