This course is now closed to applications for September 2025 entry. 2026 applications will open in September 2025
Learn the skills and develop the confidence you need to be a life-changing midwife at the University of Hull and be the difference for mums and their babies at their most vulnerable.
With this fully accredited degree, you’ll split your time between learning in our award-winning new Allam Medical Building and developing your skills on placement, becoming a qualified midwife when you graduate.
Students studying this course will receive a payment of at least £5,000 a year. This doesn't need to be paid back and is in addition to any financial support received through your student loan.
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About this course
With a 50/50 split between clinical practice and scheduled classes, our student midwives gain the knowledge and self-confidence to support women throughout pregnancy, labour and the early postnatal period.
By studying a careful balance of theory and practice-based learning, you’ll also develop the interpersonal and communication skills to work within interdisciplinary and multi-agency care teams, and to build and sustain relationships with women and their families.
You'll learn in the cutting-edge facilities of our award-winning new Allam Medical Building – which have been designed to mirror what you’ll be using a fully-qualified professional and include a midwifery-led birthing unit, simulated hospital ward, intensive care unit and resuscitation unit.
Our midwifery programme also boasts a 100% employability rating1 – so the career prospects couldn’t be better. And after you graduate, you’ll also be eligible to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, which is the regulatory body for nurses and midwives in the UK.
Health placements
Discover more about health placements - learn why they matter, explore potential destinations, and hear first-hand feedback from fellow health students.
A degree
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Module options
Each year, you’ll study modules worth a certain number of credits, and you need 120 credits per year. Most modules are 20 credits – so you’ll study six modules each year. Some longer modules, such as a dissertation, are worth more. In these cases, you’ll study fewer modules - but the number of credits will always add up to 120. Some modules are compulsory, some are optional, so you can build a course that’s right for you.
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Being an accountable, autonomous, professional midwife
Become equipped with the skills needed to prepare for academic study and begin to develop your knowledge of the professional issues and interpersonal communication underpinning midwifery practice.
core
20 credits
Essential skills for midwifery: 1
Learn essential midwifery skills for antenatal and postnatal care, such as measuring and recording vital signs and assessing the newborn after birth.
core
20 credits
Safe and effective care
Learn about care of physiologically normal pregnancy and birth and the anatomy and physiology that underpins this, whilst gaining a greater understanding of the wider context of childbirth.
core
20 credits
Essential skills for midwifery: 2
Learn essential midwifery skills for promoting maternal health, and develop your competence at administering medications.
core
20 credits
Universal care
Learn more about working in inter-professional teams. Further develop your communication skills and inclusivity and diversity and learn more about the anatomy and physiology of the healthy human body.
core
20 credits
Practice 1: participation in care
Participate in antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal and neonatal care under direct supervision on placement. Undertake caring and midwifery specific skills and bring theory and practice together.
core
20 credits
Speaking out for health
Understand how health, lifestyle and social factors affect an individual’s life chances. Learn more about how midwives can promote health amongst the whole spectrum of society.
core
20 credits
Essential skills for midwifery: 3
Learn essential midwifery skills for supporting infant feeding, advanced medication administration and systematic examination of the newborn.
core
20 credits
The delivery of care in complex pregnancy and birth
Become equipped with the knowledge and skills to recognise, interpret, treat, and manage ill health and complications in the childbearing period.
core
20 credits
Our facilities
Our academics
Our staff combine teaching and clinical practice with the opportunity to be involved in high-quality research projects.
Their expertise sees them consult with regulatory bodies and government to drive improvement in healthcare and their research is recognised internationally for its quality.
Helen Jacques
Lecturer
With over 20 years of experience as a health professional, Helen has a Masters in midwifery and was deputy manager of her department before opting to pursue a career in nursing and midwifery academia at the University of Hull.
Dr Angela Poat
Lecturer and MSc Midwifery Programme leader
Angela Poat is passionate about maternal-infant heath, working as a clinician for many years and across other educational institutions, nationally and internationally, teaching midwifery and nursing.
Entry Requirements
Fees & Funding
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Future prospects
You’ll combine classroom learning with practical experience so that you’ll graduate as a qualified midwife ready to go straight into a professional health setting.
Our Midwifery degree has a 100% employability rating1 so the career prospects are strong with many of our graduates taking up roles in the NHS, as well as overseas or in private practice.
Become part of the next generation of futuremakers
Like what you've seen? Then it's time to apply.
The standard way is to apply through UCAS. This will give you the chance to showcase your skills qualities and passion for the subject, as well as providing us with your academic qualifications.
This course is now closed to applications for September 2025 entry. 2026 applications will open in September 2025
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All modules presented on this course page are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.