MSc Education
- MSc
Overview
The MSc Education is designed for graduates who wish to specialise in a specific area within the wide field of education while also providing an opportunity for those interested in designing their own programme of study based on topical interests, instead of choosing one specialism.
You can choose any of our eight specialisms to match your interests, each dedicated to a key area within the field of education:
- Digital Education
- Educational Neuroscience
- Higher Education
- Inclusive Education
- Leadership and Policy
- Learning and Teaching
- Mathematics Education
- Policy and International Development.
For those who prefer to organise their own programme of studies, units can be taken from across the different specialisms and from a range of available optional units to build a tailored programme of study. For example, if your interests span both educational policy and the use of technology in education, you might combine units from the Leadership and Policy specialism with units from the Digital Education specialism.
Our diverse cohort across the programme creates a rich learning environment and encourages sharing of ideas among students and academics alike. After completing the MSc Education, most students go on to work in education in some form. Some will use the master's year to develop their skills as educational researchers and go on to study for a PhD at Bristol or elsewhere.
Programme structure
As a student on the MSc Education programme, you will share a mandatory unit to develop educational research inquiry and research methods skills to prepare the ground for developing an informed and critical perspective of research in the field of education. You will also start developing the core aspects of a specialism (if one is chosen). During the second term, you will continue to specialise with specialism units plus the possibility of choosing optional units you can select from other specialisms (subject to availability and timetabling constraints). You will finish your master's by completing a supervised research dissertation project in an educational area you are interested in.
Visit our programme catalogue for full details of the structure and unit content for our MSc Education.
Entry requirements
You will typically need an upper second-class honours degree or an international equivalent in any discipline.
We will consider your application if your interim grades are currently slightly lower than the programme's entry requirements and may make you an aspirational offer. This offer would be at the standard level, so you would need to achieve the standard entry requirements by the end of your degree. Specific module requirements would still apply.
We will also consider your application if your final overall achieved grade is slightly lower than the programme's entry requirement.
If your achieved grade is lower than our entry requirements, your application may be more likely to receive an offer if you have a relevant postgraduate qualification. If you have one of the following, please include your CV (curriculum vitae / résumé) when you apply, showing:
- a relevant postgraduate qualification.
See international equivalent qualifications on the International Office website.
Read the programme admissions statement for important information on entry requirements, the application process and supporting documents required.
If English is not your first language, you will need to reach the requirements outlined in our profile level C.
Further information about English language requirements and profile levels.
Fees and funding
- Home: full-time
- £12,300 per year
- Overseas: full-time
- £28,200 per year
- Home: part-time (two years)
- £6,150 per year
- Home: part-time (three years)
- £4,100 per year
Fees are subject to an annual review. For programmes that last longer than one year, please budget for up to an 8% increase in fees each year.
More about tuition fees, living costs and financial support.
Alumni discount
University of Bristol students and graduates can benefit from a 25% reduction in tuition fees for postgraduate study. Check your eligibility for an alumni discount.
Funding and scholarships
Further information on funding for prospective UK and international postgraduate students.
Career prospects
Our goal is to equip you with the tools to demonstrate impact, excellence and distinctiveness in your chosen field.
We will enable our graduates to display the following characteristics:
- be equipped to demonstrate impact, excellence and distinctiveness in your chosen field;
- be visionary, imaginative, innovative, reflective and creative;
- have high ideals and values, including a strong sense of social justice;
- be highly employable throughout the world;
- be adaptable, with the potential to be a leader in work and in the community.
Graduates with an MSc in Education often advance into roles in:
- Teaching and educational leadership: many work as teachers (if they hold Qualified Teacher Status or equivalent additional qualifications) or progress into leadership roles such as curriculum coordinators, headteachers, or educational consultants.
- Education policy and administration: opportunities exist within government bodies, local authorities, and education charities, influencing policy and practice.
- Higher education and academic research: postgraduate students could choose to continue into PhD programmes or take on academic research roles within universities or independent education think tanks.
- EdTech and corporate training: graduates may move into educational technology companies, instructional design, or corporate training and development.
Contact us
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- +44 (0) 117 394 1649
- choosebristol-pg@bristol.ac.uk
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