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MSc Advanced Professional Practice in Occupational Therapy

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What will I learn?

About the course

Are you an occupational therapist wishing to develop your skills and knowledge in critical thinking? This pathway will help you to improve people鈥檚 health and well-being by implementing innovative, evidence-based practice in a range of practice settings. You will be able to develop your skills and knowledge in research and scholarly activity around the core principles of occupational therapy. This pathway enables you to explore innovative occupational therapy and occupational science in depth.

Key features

- Study on a programme with a long, esteemed history and join the many hundreds of successful graduates from all over the world. You will learn to apply up-to-date knowledge of research and theory, to enhance your creativity and flexibility, and to develop the academic skills needed to work effectively in modern health and social care settings.
- Join an enthusiastic team of occupational therapists, undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students who are pushing forward the boundaries of knowledge on occupational science and occupational therapy.
- Learn within our supportive multi-professional and inter-agency environments on a programme is delivered by experts in a setting where innovative thinking regarding advanced professional development is put into practice.
- Become an evidence-based practitioner, equipped to manage and lead in busy and constantly changing settings and able to reflect on and utilise a range of evidence to support your professional occupational therapy practice.
- Tailor your learning to your own workplace through module assignments and the occupational therapy practice: supported study module.
- Choose from one of three different exit awards to suit your own needs - step off the pathway with a postgraduate certificate (three modules) or postgraduate diploma (six modules) if you wish, or you can continue on to a master鈥檚 degree where you will carry out your own research project with the support of experienced occupational therapy lecturers and researchers.
- Complete the programme in one year with the full-time study option or balance work and caring commitments by studying part time over a maximum of five years. The full-time route is suitable for international students, who will be supported to choose optional modules with non-clinical assignments.

Which department am I in?

School of Health Professions

Study options

Full Time (1 year)

Tuition fees
拢19,550.00 (US$ 25,247) per year
This is a fixed fee

*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please

Start date

September 2025

Venue

Plymouth University

Drake Circus,

Plymouth,

PL4 8AA, SOUTHERN ENGLAND, England

Entry requirements

For international students

You鈥檒l normally have a first degree (BSc (Hons) at 2:2 or above or European first cycle equivalent) in Occupational Therapy. If you are a non UK-based candidate you must be recognised as a Occupational Therapist within your own country. You may be a health or social care professional with a first degree or have related academic degrees. If you do not have a degree but have appropriate experience related to the programme or to any of the chosen pathways you may be eligible to apply. You must also provide evidence of competence in written and spoken English in accordance with the University鈥檚 Admissions Code of Practice - IELTS requirement is 6.5 average with a minimum of 5.5 in each category. The TOEFL Score would be 90 and Component scores of listening 17, reading 18, speaking 20, writing 18.

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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About University of Plymouth

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