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Top 10 for Health Professions

Our Health Professions courses are ranked 9th best in the UK by The Guardian University Guide 2025.

Undergraduate courses/Allied Health Professions courses/Speech and Language Therapy

Key facts

Entry requirements

128 or DDM

Full entry requirements

UCAS code

B621

Institution code

D26

Duration

3 yrs full-time

Three years full-time

Fees

2025/26 UK tuition fees:
£9,535*

2025/26 international tuition:
£16,750

Additional costs

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Entry requirements

128 or DDM

Full entry requirements

UCAS code

B621

Institution code

D26

Duration

3 yrs full-time

Three years full-time

Fees

2025/26 UK tuition fees:
£9,535*

2025/26 international tuition:
£16,750

Additional costs

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Give voices a chance to be heard. With ÐßÐßÊÓƵ’s Speech and Language Therapy BSc (Hons), develop the skills to transform lives through communication.

Speech and language therapists play a vital role in supporting individuals of all ages who experience difficulties with speech, language, communication, and swallowing. Working closely with families, carers, and a diverse range of professionals, therapists provide essential assessment, intervention, and support to enhance quality of life. This dynamic and rewarding profession offers opportunities to make a real difference in people’s lives.

At ÐßÐßÊÓƵ, our Speech and Language Therapy course equips you with the knowledge and practical experience needed for a successful career in this field. Throughout the three-year programme, you will study core subjects such as phonetics and phonology, psychology, medical sciences, linguistics, and language development. As you progress, you will delve deeper into communication disabilities, evidence-based practice, and therapeutic interventions. Your final year will provide opportunities to develop a specialist focus through an independent dissertation project.

Practical experience is a key component of our course. You will undertake practice-based learning each year, including weekly and block placements in diverse settings such as schools, hospitals, care homes, and community environments. These hands-on experiences allow you to apply theoretical knowledge in real-world scenarios, developing essential clinical and professional skills.

Key Features

  • Top 10 for Health Professions: Our Health Professions courses are ranked 9th best in the UK by The Guardian University Guide 2025.
  • Accredited and approved: Our course is approved by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, and graduates are eligible to register with the Health and Care Professions Council, enabling them to practice as professional speech and language therapists.
  • Financial support: All speech and language therapy students are eligible to of at least £5,000 per year, with up to £3,000 in additional funding available.
  • Boost your employability: Gain extensive practical experience through a combination of external and simulated placements, starting from your first year and continuing throughout your studies.
  • Career-focused education: Our curriculum is designed to enhance employability, with insights from industry professionals, newly qualified therapists, and experienced practitioners to support your transition into the workforce.
  • Interprofessional collaboration: Develop essential teamwork skills through dedicated interprofessional learning activities with students from health and education disciplines, preparing you for effective collaborative practice in your career. 

 

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What you will study

Block 1: Foundations for Professional and Clinical Practice 1

In this module, you will develop foundation theory and skills in preparation for clinical and professional practice. It is in this module that you will encounter your first non-clinical practice-based learning (PBL) with children in a school setting.

Block 2: Lifespan Development

In this module, you will begin to develop an understanding of key underpinning knowledge of theoretical frameworks in psychology and lifespan development needed for application to speech and language therapy practice. You will also be introduced to linguistics terminology with reference to models, processes, and key stages of language development.

Block 3: Understanding Communication Disability

This module provides the foundation to how we think about communication disability; how it might present, approaches to describing and assessing a range of conditions, and how these impact on a person’s life.

Block 4: Foundations for Professional and Clinical Practice 2

You will learn about key life transitions as part of the ageing process and through two practice-based learning opportunities will meet a diverse range of individuals who will share their lived experiences.

Block 1: Evidence-Based Intervention: Language and Cognition

In this module, you will focus on understanding assessment, intervention, and management of clients with developmental and acquired language and cognitive difficulties. Indicative content includes developmental language disorders and DLD, cognitive models such as psycholinguistics, neurodevelopmental conditions and learning disabilities, acquired language disorders such as aphasia, relevant medical sciences, and language analysis.

Block 2: Evidence-Based Intervention

Speech and Swallowing: In this module, you will focus on understanding assessment, intervention, and management of clients with motor speech disorders and eating, drinking, and swallowing difficulties. Indicative content includes dysphagia, apraxia, dysarthria, degenerative conditions, speech sound disorders, and cleft palate.

Block 3: Developing Clinical and Professional Practice

In this module, you will develop clinical, personal, and professional skills. The module includes teaching to support simulated and clinical placement learning, communication skills, counselling, information gathering and assessment, delivering training, record keeping, reflection, and the application of social and cultural factors in SLT practice.

Block 4: Research-Informed Speech and Language Therapy Practice

In this module, you will develop the knowledge and skills required to understand research methods and their role in service development and clinical practice.

Block 1: Establishing Clinical and Professional Practice

In this module, you will further develop your personal, professional, and clinical skills needed for SLT. You will develop your clinical skills underpinning intervention planning, including aim setting, session planning, intervention, and evaluation alongside undertaking a clinical placement. Learning will include developing indirect intervention skills and will revisit and extend relevant personal and professional skills from year 2, including promoting inclusion and access, health promotion, interprofessional practice and team working, working with service users, families and carers, self-development, and management. You will act as a peer mentor to others on different levels of the programme.

Block 2: Evidence-Based Intervention: Specialist Settings

In this module, you will study the features, assessment, and management of communication disorders associated with more specialist settings, including hearing impairment and audiology, cognitive communication disorder (CCD) arising from acute brain injury, right hemisphere disorders, complex dementia, mental health conditions in adults and children, forensics, voice and ENT, head and neck cancers and trauma, tracheostomy, and brain tumours.

Block 3: Research Practice

In this module, you will draw on knowledge and skills acquired in levels 4 and 5 and will work in small tutorial groups and with individual supervision to demonstrate your understanding of the research process: motivating a research question, devising a method for gathering data, data analysis, and discussion of data (dissertation project).

Block 4: Towards Professional Autonomy

Clinical and Professional Practice: In this module, you will demonstrate personal, professional, and clinical skills at a level appropriate for HCPC registration as an SLT NQP. You will integrate knowledge and skills from previous learning and complete a clinical placement covering all elements of the SLT role. Teaching and study to support this placement and your journey to autonomy will include advocacy, professional autonomy and accountability, leadership and lifelong learning, self-development and management, professional development and business management skills, developing others, innovation, and change.

Note: All modules are indicative and based on the current academic session. Course information is correct at the time of publication and is subject to review. Exact modules may, therefore, vary for your intake in order to keep content current. If there are changes to your course we will, where reasonable, take steps to inform you as appropriate.

Teaching is generally in relatively small groups and includes:

  • Lectures
  • Seminars
  • Tutorial discussions
  • Practical workshops
  • Inter-professional (IP) learning with students from other healthcare professions
  • Practice Based learning – using case studies and simulated cases designed to support external placements.  

Sessions often have lots of opportunities for interaction and applying your learning through discussion, practical or case-based examples along the way. You will also undertake self-directed study within modules, such as reading, webinars and group activities. Learning also takes place within inter-professional learning events with other programmes and practice-based learning including virtual and/or physical placements.

You’ll be assessed using a wide variety of methods including:

  • Written assignments
  • Case studies
  • Video assessments
  • Presentations
  • Exams
  • Dissertation project

These are not only beneficial in demonstrating your learning on the programme, but often have relevance to your future role as an SLT

Teaching contact hours:

Contact hours in any week depend on modules and the year you’re in. Most modules take a flexible, blended approach, with online materials to support your studies as well as face to face taught sessions, but you can expect around 15 hours timetabled study each week, plus placement hours which differ according to the position of the placement within the programme.

In years 1 and 2, these are mainly focused across 3 days per week due to the weekly nature of placement. Across the programme you will also complete at least 150 sessions (approximately 75 days) practice-based learning.

 At ÐßÐßÊÓƵ, we have a structured personal tutoring approach and aim for a collaborative and collegiate feel for the programme. We’re delighted to regularly receive feedback from students on the approachability of the staff and the support they offer.

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Our facilities

Hawthorn Building

Home to students and staff from Health and Life Sciences courses spanning pharmaceutical, healthcare, lab based and social science disciplines.

The facilities and spaces in the Hawthorn Building are designed to replicate current practice in health and life sciences, including contemporary analytical chemistry and formulation laboratories, audiology booths and nursing and midwifery clinical skills suites.

Purpose-built clinical skills areas allow you to practice in a safe environment. You will receive guidance and support from expert academic and technical staff.

Recently renovated, the Undercroft offers dedicated break out spaces and study spaces allowing for collaborative and interprofessional learning beyond the classroom.

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Hawthorn Building is located in the centre of campus just 5 minutes from the city centre.
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Technical staff are on hand to guide students throughout their course.
Midwifery students have access to specialist facilities and staff
Midwifery students get hands-on experience
Nursing facilities in the building and others on campus, allow our students to learn in clinical settings.
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Our expertise

The vast majority of our teaching staff are registered Speech and Language Therapists, so academic teaching is well-supported by clinical experience across a wide range of specialisms. You’ll also access some teaching from visiting lecturers, immersed in specialist areas of clinical practice.

Staff also have expertise in academic research, particularly relating to dysarthria, aphasia, autism/mental health and phonetics and phonological pedagogy; and a wide range of interests including reflection, collaborative practice and pedagogy.

Our staff also contribute to wider developments in the SLT world, for example in RCSLT working groups on topics such as clinical education, equality and diversity and dysphagia competencies.

Accreditations, awards or memberships

Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

The course is certified by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and approved by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).  Graduates are eligible to apply to the HCPC for entry onto the speech and language part of the register in order to practise as speech and language therapists.

What makes us special

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ÐßÐßÊÓƵ Global

This is our innovative international experience programme which aims to enrich your studies and expand your cultural horizons – helping you to become a global graduate, equipped to meet the needs of employers across the world. Through ÐßÐßÊÓƵ Global, we offer a wide range of opportunities including on-campus and UK activities, overseas study, internships, faculty-led field trips and volunteering, as well as Erasmus+ and international exchanges.

Students on this course have previously undertaken ÐßÐßÊÓƵ Global trips to places such as India, where they visited schools and community groups, and The Gambia, where they helped support deaf children. In addition to this, students have travelled to Bangkok to teach English to schoolchildren.

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Placements

Each year, you will access practice-based learning including placements to compliment the theoretical learning in university and develop professional and clinical expertise. Preparation for and reflection after practice-based learning ensures students are supported and continually progress from these experiences to work towards becoming autonomous Speech and Language Therapists. Practice based learning opportunities will include simulation and case based work at the University as well as external placements that include virtual (telehealth) as well as physical placement opportunities.

External placements are typically provided by the NHS, educational establishments, social care settings and private providers across the East Midlands and reflect current service delivery in speech and language therapy. This will enable you to develop a wide range of skills across different client groups and settings. Our model includes both weekly and block placements across the programme.

We follow the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists guidance on clinical placements, to ensure an appropriate breadth and depth of experience. We rely on SLT services to offer practical experiences for students.

We work closely with students and SLT services to ensure students who require reasonable adjustments on placement relating to health, disability or additional learning needs are appropriately supported.

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Graduate careers

Our graduates are highly sought-after by speech and language therapy providers, with previous students securing positions working for the NHS and private organisations, as well as in medical, educational and social care settings.

Speech and Language Therapy graduate Alison Fowler came to study at ÐßÐßÊÓƵ after more than 20 years working as a teacher, so she could follow her dream of helping people who have had a brain injury or a stroke, or any condition that might affect their communication.

She said: “I was utterly thrilled when I was offered my place on the course and I have thoroughly enjoyed my time here.”

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Course specifications

Course title

Speech and Language Therapy

Award

BSc (Hons)

UCAS code

B621

Institution code

D26

Study level

Undergraduate

Study mode

Full-time

Start date

September

Duration

Three years full-time

Fees

2025/26 UK tuition fees:
£9,535*

2025/26 international tuition:
£16,750

*subject to the government, as is expected, passing legislation to formalise the increase.

Additional costs

Entry requirements

GCSEs

  • Five GCSEs at grade C/4 or above including: English, Maths and Science. We do not accept functional skills.

Plus one of the following:

A Level

  • A minimum of 128 UCAS points from three A-levels at grades ABB or higher. We do not accept General Studies

T Levels

  • Distinction in Healthcare Science (optional module in Assisting with Healthcare Science, not Optical Care Services)
  • Distinction in Health (optional module in Supporting the Therapy Teams or Supporting the Adult Nursing Team or Supporting the Mental Health Team or Supporting the Care of Children and Young People)

BTEC

  • BTEC National Diploma - normally in Health and Social Care or Applied Science at DD plus another level 3 to meet the 128 UCAS points
  • BTEC Extended Diploma - normally in Health and Social Care or Applied Science at DDM

Access Diploma

  • Pass in the QAA Access to HE Diploma ‘Science’ or ‘Medicine and Healthcare’ with 45 level 3 credits at Distinction

English, Maths and Science GCSE required at grade C/4 as separate qualifications. Equivalency not accepted within the Access qualification.

We will normally require students to have had a break from full-time education before undertaking the Access course.

International Baccalaureate: 30+ points

Alternative qualifications 

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Foundation degree: each application will be considered on its merits 

English language requirements:

If English is not your first language an average IELTS score of 8.0 (with no component below 7.5) when you start the course is essential. English language tuition, delivered by our British Council accredited Centre for English Language Learning (CELL), is available both before and during the course.

Mature students

We welcome applications from mature students with non-standard qualifications and recognise all other equivalent and international qualifications.

Work experience: We expect candidates to have sought some related experience e.g. with a voluntary organisation/school/nursery etc before applying. Where possible they will have had experience within a speech and language therapy clinical setting. In their personal statement applicants should demonstrate some knowledge of the profession and the potential ability to:

  • Recognise and respond to the needs of others.
  • Motivate others.
  • Make others feel safe and comfortable during interactions ('rapport').
  • Listen effectively and with empathy.
  • Communicate effectively in spoken and written English adapting to varied listeners and settings.
  • Learn independently.
  • Manage time and workload and effectively.  
  • Apply problem-solving skills flexibly and creatively to complex situations.
  • Reflect realistically on own learning and performance

Non-academic requirements

As well as academic requirements, you will also be required to meet and fulfil non-academic requirements which are stated below:

  • Self-Declaration Form clearance
  • Occupational Health clearance
  • Enhanced DBS disclosure clearance

You submit an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service disclosure application form before starting the course (if you are overseas you will also need to submit a criminal records certificate from your home country), which needs to be cleared in accordance with ÐßÐßÊÓƵ’s admissions policy. Contact us for up-to-date information.

We strongly advise that you opt for the DBS update service as it is possible that future placement providers may request a recent DBS and not one from the start of the programme. If you decide not to opt for this service then you will have to pay for the DBS again if requested by your placement provided – the university will not cover this cost. 

You must meet and fulfil all non-academic requirements before 18 July 2025. Failure to meet this deadline may result in your offer being withdrawn.

Resources:  For more general information and resources on how to prepare for applying to become a Speech and Language therapist, please see the  w±ð²ú²õ¾±³Ù±ð.

Additional costs

You may incur  for this programme, including the cost of travelling to and from project/placement locations.