Undergraduate

Midwifery

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A midwife talks with a pregnant patient who is lying in bed in a hospital ward
Midwifery students using the training facilities in the Allam Medical Building
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Gain the skills, experience and qualifications to become a life-changing midwife with this fully approved degree from the University of Hull.
Our course features a 50/50 split between learning in our award-winning facilities and developing your skills on placement.
Midwifery students receive a payment of at least £5,000 a year from the NHS. This doesn't need to be paid back and is in addition to any financial support received through your student loan.
Our Allam Medical Building features hospital-standard facilities where you can practise your skills in a safe, but realistic environment.
Get hands-on in our midwife-led unit and practise a range of scenarios with our state-of-the-art birthing simulator.
Take your first step to becoming a registered midwife. Our degree boasts a 100% employability rating¹ – so the career prospects couldn’t be better.
A Midwifery student tending to a plastic baby on a practise ward
A midwife talks with a pregnant patient who is lying in bed in a hospital ward
Midwifery students using the training facilities in the Allam Medical Building
A group of nursing and health students standing in front of the Allam Medical Building wearing different uniforms
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  • 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.

  • 50/50 split

    between classes and placements

  • Get paid £5k a year

    or more through the NHS Learning Support Fund 1

  • Award-winning

    facilities on campus

  • Course approved

    by the Nursing and Midwifery Council

  • Become a qualified midwife

    when you graduate

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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 92.9% employability rating2 – 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.

Scheduled study hours and how you’re assessed

To meet NMC requirements, you’re expected to study for 4600 hours over 3 years. This is organised over 45 scheduled weeks of study and three trimesters per year, with additional time scheduled for assessment and holidays.

Choose your modules

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.

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
6 Modules

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

Essential skills for midwifery: 4

Learn essential midwifery skills for more complex midwifery care including obstetric emergencies.

 

Core•20 credits

Additional care: the neonate

Learn about more complex care for the neonate, how to identify, monitor and refer where appropriate. Gain the understanding and skills to carry out a full physical examination of the newborn.

Core•20 credits

Practice 2: contribution to care

Contribute to antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal and neonatal care under supervision. Undertake caring and midwifery specific skills and bring theory and practice together.

Core•20 credits
6 Modules

Promoting excellence: the midwife as colleague, scholar and leader

Learn about the professional context of the midwife in practice, and how to summarise evidence and implement it into practice.

Core•40 credits

Essential skills for midwifery: 5

Learn advanced essential midwifery skills, including communication, for caring for critically ill women and dealing with emergency situations.

Core•20 credits

Essential skills for midwifery: 6

Learn advanced essential skills for midwifery practice in areas around postnatal care, perinatal mental health and breast feeding.

Core•20 credits

Supportive cultures and education

Learn how to work autonomously and explore what it means to practice as a registered midwife. Become prepared for teaching in others in practice.

Core•20 credits

Practice 3: the proficient midwifery practitioner

Consolidate your practice and demonstrate your proficiency in all areas of midwifery practice. Undertake caring and midwifery specific skills and bring theory and practice together.

Core•20 credits
5 Modules

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Entry requirements

What do I need?

We consider experience and qualifications from the UK and worldwide which may not exactly match the combinations above.

But it's not just about the grades - we'll look at your whole application. We want to know what makes you tick, and about your previous experience, so make sure that you complete your personal statement.

Have questions? Our admissions team will be happy to help.

What do I need?

If you require a student visa to study or if your first language is not English you will be required to provide acceptable evidence of your English language proficiency level.

See other English language proficiency qualifications accepted by the University of Hull.

If your English currently does not reach the University’s required standard for this programme, you may be interested in one of our English language courses.

Visit your country page to find out more about our entry requirements.

Fees & funding

How much is it?

Additional costs you may have to pay

Your tuition fees will cover most costs associated with your programme. There are some extra costs that you might have to pay, or choose to pay, depending on your programme of study and the decisions you make:

  • Books (you can borrow books on your reading lists from the library, but you may buy your own)
  • Optional field trips
  • Study abroad (incl. travel costs, accommodation, visas, immunisation)
  • Placement costs (incl. travel costs and accommodation)
  • Student visas (international students)
  • Laptop (you’ll have access to laptops and computers on campus, but you may want your own)
  • Printing and photocopying
  • Professional-body membership
  • Graduation (gown hire and photography)

Remember, you’ll still need to take into account your living costs. This could include accommodation, travel, food and more.

How do I pay for it?

How much is it?

Additional costs you may have to pay

Your tuition fees will cover most costs associated with your programme. There are some extra costs that you might have to pay, or choose to pay, depending on your programme of study and the decisions you make:

  • Books (you can borrow books on your reading lists from the library, but you may buy your own)
  • Optional field trips
  • Study abroad (incl. travel costs, accommodation, visas, immunisation)
  • Placement costs (incl. travel costs and accommodation)
  • Student visas (international students)
  • Laptop (you’ll have access to laptops and computers on campus, but you may want your own)
  • Printing and photocopying
  • Professional-body membership
  • Graduation (gown hire and photography)

Remember, you’ll still need to take into account your living costs. This could include accommodation, travel, food and more.

How do I pay for it?

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.

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Janet Kelly
Featured academic

Dr Janet Kelly

Janet is a nurse and midwife who is also qualified in law. She has a passion for teaching midwifery, healthcare law and ethics, and is Chair for the Nursing Midwifery Council's Fitness to Practise Conduct and Competence Committees,
Helen Jacques
Featured academic

Helen Jacques

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.

Take a look at our facilities

Birthing Unit

Get hands-on in our midwife-led unit and practise a range of scenarios with our state-of-the-art birthing simulator.

Neonatal Ward

Our neonatal ward gives midwifery students the chance to train in realistic conditions and prepare for clinical practice in a safe and constructive environment.

Operating Theatre

Develop the skills and confidence to work in a surgical setting with our mock operating theatre on campus.

Health Campus

Our home for the healthcare professionals of the future. Equipped with a simulated hospital ward, intensive care unit, resuscitation unit, and more.

See more in our virtual tour

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Midwifery Room
Neonatal Ward
Allam Medical Building Operating Theatre
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Exterior of the Allam Medical Building

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 92.2% employability rating2 – 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.

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  1. Available to all undergraduate students studying Nursing, Midwifery, Paramedic Science or Physiotherapy. You don't need to pay this back, and you'll get it as well as your student loan.
  2. (Midwifery) UK domicile full-time first degree leavers; Higher Education Graduate Outcomes statistics, for the academic year 2020/21, published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency June 2023.

 

All modules presented on this course page are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.

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