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Expected Academic Standard
Applicants for this course should have achieved a UK Good II.i Honours Degree.
If your degree is not from the UK, please check International Qualifications to find the equivalent in your country.
Applicants will usually have undergraduate experience in quantitative science or a degree in a health-related area, although other relevant experience will also be considered.
We also expect clear interest in Population Health Sciences (PHS), clear commitment to a career in PHS, and a clear understanding of the contribution of the MPhil to applicants’ future career ambitions.
Applicants without the standard university requirements but with, for example, clinical degrees or appropriate and compensatory professional experience, may be considered via our non-standard admissions mechanism, if they meet all other admissions criteria. If your application should be considered via our non-standard mechanism, please select ‘no’ on the verification of qualifications question on the application form, and then provide some justification.
Mathematical skills at the level of an excellent A-level student are a minimum requirement for applicants to the Health Data Science (HDS) theme. Nevertheless, we expect that most applicants to HDS will have a mathematical training that is more advanced than A-level. Applicants to HDS who only satisfy the minimum mathematical requirement should have an undergraduate degree in a field relevant to the course (e.g. biomedical sciences). Some aptitude for and experience of computer programming is highly desirable for HDS applicants.
University Minimum Academic Requirements
Language Requirement
IELTS (Academic)
| Element | Score |
|---|---|
| Listening | 7.0 |
| Writing | 7.0 |
| Reading | 6.5 |
| Speaking | 7.0 |
| Total | 7.0 |
TOEFL Internet Score
| Element | Score |
|---|---|
| Listening | 25 |
| Writing | 25 |
| Reading | 25 |
| Speaking | 25 |
| Total | 100 |
C1 Advanced
Score: Grade A & B (overall score of 193, with no element lower than 185 plus a Language Centre assessment)
C2 Proficiency
Score: Grade A, B, or C (with at least 200 with no element lower than 185).