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MSc Cardiovascular Science

  • DeadlineStudy Details: 1 year - 5 years

Masters Degree Description

Cardiovascular disease remains a major cause of death and ill health globally. This flexible MSc, taught by leading scientists and clinicians, will give you the specialist laboratory and clinical expertise in cardiovascular science to advance your career and bring new interventions to the people who need them most. Choose to study the course over one, two or up to five years.

Entry Requirements

A minimum of an upper second-class Bachelor's degree in a scientific or medical discipline from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard, or a recognised taught Master's degree.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

UCL offers a range of financial awards aimed at assisting both prospective and current students with their studies.

Student Destinations

This Master’s degree is relevant for students from a range of backgrounds. Clinical students, and students working as healthcare professionals, mostly return to their clinical path with enhanced skills, which they usually then apply to research or leadership. Some clinicians move into another field or use the MSc as a stepping-stone to building a more research-active clinical career. Those from a science or medical background might take this MSc directly after their undergraduate degree or after a period of research or work experience – and often go on to either PhD research or medical school. Other students progress onto the NHS Scientists’ Training Programme or work as a research assistant, in education or medical writing and communications, the pharmaceutical industry or healthcare innovation and technology. Graduates have gone on to work for the NHS, the Centre for Medical Sciences and Research, The Wistar Institute, and King's College London. * *Graduate Outcomes survey carried out by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), looking at the destinations of UK and EU graduates in 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 cohorts.

Module Details

Compulsory modules

  • Research Methods and Introduction to Statistics
  • Heart and Circulation
  • Animal Models of Cardiovascular Disease
  • Research Project
  • Congenital Heart Disease - Fundamentals
  • Cardiovascular Science and Disease
  • Microvascular Biology
  • Clinical Cardiology
  • Fundamental genetic laboratory methods in cardiovascular research
  • Genetics of Cardiovascular and Related Complex Diseases
  • Genomics and Drug Development
  • Drug Discovery 2

Optional modules

  • Congenital Heart Disease - Fundamentals
  • Cardiovascular Science and Disease
  • Microvascular Biology
  • Clinical Cardiology
  • Fundamental genetic laboratory methods in cardiovascular research
  • Genetics of Cardiovascular and Related Complex Diseases
  • Genomics and Drug Development
  • Drug Discovery 2
  • reasonable adjustments
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