An upper second class degree (or equivalent) in a related field is required.
Additional requirement information
Related degrees include medical, sport, and biomedical science, and science degrees such as biology, biochemistry, chemistry, and physiology. Other degrees will be considered on an individual basis.
In addition to the above, candidates are required to have practical experience relating to physiotherapy, such as shadowing, work placement or healthcare work experience.
All shortlisted applicants will be interviewed by a panel consisting of a clinical Physiotherapist and an academic member of staff, who will take it in turn to ask questions.
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
If your application is successful you will be expected to become a student member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.
DBS (Criminal Record Check)
As part of the registration process, you are required to undertake a criminal record check through the Disclosure & Barring Service. This is to ensure that you have not been barred from working with children and vulnerable adults and do not have criminal records that make you unsuitable for working with young people. This will be requested following a successful interview. Further information is available in the applicant guide.
First-aid
All applicants will be required to attend a First Aid Training course during their induction week. The cost of this is estimated to be £85 but can be confirmed closer to the date.
International requirements
International students should check our country-specific pages for equivalents. If English is not your first language you will need to achieve an IELTS score of 7.0 overall with no less than 6.5 in any section (or equivalent).
We now accept IELTS Indicator test results as proof of your English language level.
Further information
For more information about entry requirements please email apply@stmarys.ac.uk.
The application process for MSc Physiotherapy is multi-stage. When your application is received we make an initial assessment to check your qualifications and documents. If there are documents missing that we require, we will email asking you to upload these to your portal so we can complete our assessment. These must be uploaded by 4th January 2023.
Applications that are incomplete after this date will be rejected and will not carry through to the academic review round. We understand that some applicants may not have completed their degrees at this stage; in this case we will require an in progress transcript from your current university. All applications must be supported by the following documents in order to be considered complete:
- Degree certificate or in progress transcript
- CV
- Personal statement
- References: one academic (if you have been in education within the least five years) and one professional
Please note: if your certificates are from outside the UK and not in English, we will require you to provide professionally certified translations.
We will close for applications on 4th January 2023.
In January the Physiotherapy Team will review all eligible applications and select those to invite to interview. Interviews will take place from the middle of January through to April.
If you are offered a place you will need to accept your offer and pay a £500 deposit to secure your place on the course. A short deadline will be provided for when we need your decision. If you are offered a place but do not both accept and pay your deposit you will have your offer withdrawn and it will be passed to the next person on the reserve list.