Mental Health, Ethics & Law MSc 12 months Postgraduate Programme By King's College London |TopUniversities
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Programme Duration

12 monthsProgramme duration

Tuitionfee

31,600 GBPTuition Fee/year

Main Subject Area

Law and Legal StudiesMain Subject Area

Programme overview

Main Subject

Law and Legal Studies

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

Our Mental Health, Ethics & Law MSc course is delivered by two internationally recognised centres of excellence and provides an integrated, strongly interdisciplinary, education in mental health, ethics and law. It equips graduates to become leaders in healthcare, mental health law or policy.

As a student on the programme, you will have the unique opportunity to study alongside others from a wide range of academic and professional disciplines, at the heart of London’s legal and psychiatric world.

This course is primarily taught at the King’s College London Strand Campus, with teaching on some modules also taking place on the Waterloo Campus or at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience on the Denmark Hill campus. As indicated in the module list, some optional modules are taught exclusively online.

Key benefits
  • In-depth and integrated clinical, philosophical and legal analysis of key issues faced in the field of mental health.
  • Run by the UK’s first Centre of Medical Law & Ethics, in collaboration with Europe’s largest centre for research and teaching in psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience: the Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry & Neuroscience.
  • Teaching is based in central London, and teaching staff maintain close links with national and international policy makers and leading legal and clinical practitioner communities.

Programme overview

Main Subject

Law and Legal Studies

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

Our Mental Health, Ethics & Law MSc course is delivered by two internationally recognised centres of excellence and provides an integrated, strongly interdisciplinary, education in mental health, ethics and law. It equips graduates to become leaders in healthcare, mental health law or policy.

As a student on the programme, you will have the unique opportunity to study alongside others from a wide range of academic and professional disciplines, at the heart of London’s legal and psychiatric world.

This course is primarily taught at the King’s College London Strand Campus, with teaching on some modules also taking place on the Waterloo Campus or at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience on the Denmark Hill campus. As indicated in the module list, some optional modules are taught exclusively online.

Key benefits
  • In-depth and integrated clinical, philosophical and legal analysis of key issues faced in the field of mental health.
  • Run by the UK’s first Centre of Medical Law & Ethics, in collaboration with Europe’s largest centre for research and teaching in psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience: the Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry & Neuroscience.
  • Teaching is based in central London, and teaching staff maintain close links with national and international policy makers and leading legal and clinical practitioner communities.

Admission Requirements

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We expect a minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. law, medicine, philosophy, psychology, theology, social science, one of the life sciences, or nursing studies). 

OR

A qualification appropriate to the programme in medicine; or a professional mental health qualification.

Alternative qualifications: Evidence of achievement of an academic level comparable to at least 2:1 standard through past studies and where previous study, work or experience has made the applicant a suitable candidate will also be considered.

1 Year
Sep

  • Candidates are required to submit references or letter(s) of recommendation for acceptance
  • Candidates are required to submit an essay(s) for acceptance

Domestic
13,500 GBP
International
31,600 GBP

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