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BMid (Hons) Midwifery

Blend theory and practice to become a safe and competent midwifery practitioner.

Year of entry: 2026/27
Show year of entry: 2025/26

  1. Overview
  2. Course content
  3. Fees and funding
  4. Teaching and assessment
  5. Careers
  6. Entry requirements
UCAS code
B721
Institution code
Y50
Start date
September 2026
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Length
3 years full-time
Typical offer
ABB
Full entry requirements
School/department
Department of Health Sciences
UK (home) fees
£9,535
International and EU fees
£32,350

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Prepare for a challenging and rewarding professional career as a midwife.

Applications for this course are closed to UK (home) and overseas applicants for 2025/26. Applications for 2026/27 will open in September.

Our aim is to educate midwifery graduates who will positively impact women, birthing people, families and communities throughout their professional lives.

We will equip you to become a skilled, knowledgeable and compassionate midwife, able to provide excellent care for women, birthing people, newborn infants and families. The course has learning through research and enquiry at its centre, and is focused on contemporary midwifery and maternity care. 

The course provides an equal balance of theory and practice learning which will enable you to develop comprehensive interpersonal skills to build and sustain relationships, working in partnership with women, birthing people and families. You will also work effectively within interdisciplinary and multi agency care teams.

Through varied and stimulating academic and practice learning modules you will gain the knowledge, skills and experience to provide safe, universal and advanced midwifery care.

We keep our cohorts small, meaning you’ll have all the peer and academic support you need to progress through your course.

Accreditation

After completing this degree, you'll be eligible to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the professional regulatory body for nurses and midwives in the UK.

Our current midwifery courses are fully-accredited with the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative with Sustainability (Gold Award). The award sets standards for facilitating effective parent-baby relationships and choices regarding infant feeding.

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of universities included in the National Student Survey 2024
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Course content

Right from the start of the course you’ll begin to provide universal, safe, respectful, empowering and equitable midwifery care to women, birthing people, their families and newborn infants. You’ll work with a variety of people across a range of community and hospital settings during your practice learning, giving you the opportunity to observe and participate in midwifery practices with different philosophies.


The course is divided equally into theory and practice. You’ll work with our practice partners across the region throughout your course, experiencing a wide range of localities and practice settings. You’ll be supported and supervised by clinical midwives, known as Practice Assessors and Practice Supervisors, in all of your placements.

  • Modules during your study will reflect the six domains set out by the Nursing and Midwifery Council:
  • Being an accountable, autonomous, professional midwife
  • Safe and effective midwifery care: promoting and providing continuity of care and carer
  • Universal care for all women, birthing people and newborn infants
  • Additional care for women, birthing people and newborn infants with complications
  • Promoting excellence: the midwife as a colleague, scholar and leader
  • The midwife as skilled practitioner

Year 1

At the beginning of your course, you’ll study what to expect when delivering universal midwifery care during pregnancy, labour, birth and the postnatal period. We focus on making sure you know how to provide high quality, evidence-based universal care for all women and families.

Your core modules will form the foundation of your midwifery knowledge. You'll explore topics in the classroom and apply your learning in practice.

Core modules

Academic integrity module

In addition to the above you will also need to complete our online Academic Integrity module.

This module covers some of the essential skills and knowledge which will help you to study independently and produce work of a high academic standard which is vital for success at York.

This module will:

  • define academic integrity and academic misconduct
  • explain why and when you should reference source material and other people's work
  • provide interactive exercises to help you to assess whether you've understood the concepts
  • provide answers to FAQs and links to useful resources.

Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.

Placements

You’ll have the opportunity to put your knowledge into action during a number of placements in a variety of settings across the region. Our dedicated practice learning team will work with you every step of the way to make sure you get the most out of these experiences.

Learning outcomes

Every course at York has been designed to provide clear and ambitious learning outcomes. These learning outcomes give you an understanding of what you will be able to do at the end of the course. We develop each course by designing modules that grow your abilities towards the learning outcomes and help you to explain what you can offer to employers. Find out more about our approach to teaching and learning.

Learning outcomes for this course
  • Provide universal, safe, respectful, empowering and equitable midwifery care to women, birthing people, their families and newborn infants.
  • Lead a universal approach to midwifery care, supporting individualised physical, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual safety.
  • Effectively communicate and build relationships, working in partnership with service users and interdisciplinary and multiagency teams.
  • Assess, plan, provide and evaluate safe and effective continuity of care and carer, being responsive to individual needs.
  • Anticipate, prevent and respond to complications and additional care needs as they arise within individual maternity journeys.
  • Lead and role model excellence via effective and collegial working with interdisciplinary and multiagency teams across a range of midwifery and maternity settings.
  • Practice as an accountable, autonomous, skilled, knowledgeable and compassionate midwife, providing care based on the best available evidence.
  • Recognise the importance of taking personal responsibility for ongoing professional development and learning, and promote continuous improvement in midwifery practice and maternity care.
State-of-the-art facilities
Perfect your practical skills in our Clinical Simulation Unit which is designed to look like just a hospital ward.

Fees and funding

Annual tuition fees

UK (home) International and EU
£9,535 £32,350

UK (home) or international fees?

The level of fee that you will be asked to pay depends on whether you're classed as a UK (home) or international student. Check your fee status.

Fees for subsequent years

  • UK (home) fees may increase within the government fee cap in subsequent academic years. We will notify you of any increase as soon as we can.
  • International fees are subject to increase in subsequent years in line with the prevailing Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate (up to a maximum of 10%).

More information

For more information about tuition fees, any reduced fees for study abroad and work placement years, scholarships, tuition fee loans, maintenance loans and living costs see undergraduate fees and funding.

Additional costs

You'll have to meet the costs of uniform replacement or missed occupational health appointments. You'll also have to pay for Professional Association Fees (Indemnity) which is covered in the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) or Unison Student Membership which is approximately £30. 

You may also have to meet costs related to your elective placement, depending on what you choose to do. 

Uniform provision, Occupational Health Screening, and Disclosure and Barring Service checks are included in your fees.

Funding

We'll confirm more funding opportunities for students joining us in 2026/27 throughout the year.

Eligible midwifery students receive a payment of at least £5,000 a year (gov.uk) to support their academic studies. This is on top of the standard government support for tuition fees and living costs and doesn't need to be paid back.

Scholarship for International Nursing & Midwifery Students

The Department of Health Sciences will provide eligible ‘International’ Midwifery & Nursing students with a £1,000 annual scholarship to help with associated travel costs as they are not eligible for assistance through the NHS Learning Support Fund. As this is a non-competitive scholarship (i.e. do not need to apply), eligible students will be notified during the new semester of their award.

Living costs

You can use our living costs guide to help plan your budget. It covers additional costs that are not included in your tuition fee such as expenses for accommodation and study materials.

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* Awarded joint 10th in the Times Higher Education ranking of the Research Excellence Framework 2021.

Teaching and assessment

Teaching format

You'll mainly work with your cohort in seminars and lectures. There's also an opportunity to work with students in other years in theory and practice.

Timetabled activities

In your first year, you can expect:

Theory sessions 40 hours per week
Theory weeks only
Placement 40 hours per week
Practice weeks only
Supervision 1 hour per semester

These figures are representative of a typical week. Your contact hours will vary throughout the year due to your module choices, non-compulsory classes, exam periods and changes to scheduled activities.

Outside your timetabled hours, you'll study independently. This may include preparation for classes, follow-up work, wider reading, practice completion of assessment tasks, or revision.

In the UK, full-time students are expected to spend 1,200 hours a year learning. That's about 40 hours of classes and independent study each week during semesters. Everyone learns at a different rate, so the number of hours you spend on independent study will be different to other students on your course.

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Assessment and feedback

Teaching and assessment methods

Careers and skills

You'll leave York with a thorough understanding of how to succeed as a registered midwifery practitioner, and a range of transferable skills that will help you no matter what career path you decide to follow.

Career opportunities and transferable skills

Entry requirements

Qualification Typical offer
A levels

ABB including a science subject.

We will accept the following A level subjects as a science: Biology, Chemistry, Further Mathematics, Mathematics, Physical Education, Physics, Psychology and Statistics.
Access to Higher Education Diploma 30 credits at Distinction and 15 level 3 credits at merit or higher. At least 12 credits should be in science subjects.
BTEC National Extended Diploma

DDM including sufficient science-related units. Please note that the BTEC National Extended Diploma in Health and Social Care is not accepted unless taken in conjunction with another approved science qualification. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your combination of qualifications.
European Baccalaureate 75% overall average including 8 in a science.
International Baccalaureate 34 including 5 in one science at Higher Level
T levels We will consider a range of T Level qualifications for entry. Please visit our dedicated T Levels page for a full list of accepted T Levels.
Scottish Highers / Advanced Highers Advanced Highers - B in a Science/Mathematics plus Scottish Highers - BBBC

We may also be able to consider three Advanced Highers or a combination of Highers and Advanced Highers, where an applicant does not meet the grade requirement through Highers alone. Please contact us to discuss your qualifications.
Other qualifications Other qualifications are accepted by the University. Please contact the department for more information.
Other international qualifications Equivalent qualifications from your country

Additional requirements

You should also hold GCSE English Language, Maths and Science at Grade 4 (C) or above, or equivalent.

Alternative offers

Meeting the following additional criteria may qualify you for an alternative offer.

Criteria Adjustment
Widening participation If you successfully complete one of the following programmes, you may be eligible for an alternative offer up to two A level grades (or equivalent) below our typical offer: Black Access Programme, Next Step York, Realising Opportunities. More about widening participation.
Contextual offer BBB including a science subject.
EPQ If you achieve C or higher in the EPQ, you may be eligible for an alternative offer up to one A level grade (or equivalent) below our typical offer.
Core Maths If you achieve B or higher in Core Maths, you may be eligible for an alternative offer up to one A level grade (or equivalent) below our typical offer.

English language

If English isn't your first language you may need to provide evidence of your English language ability. We accept the following qualifications:

Qualification Minimum requirement
IELTS (Academic) 7.0, with a minimum of 7.0 in each component
IB English A score of 4 in English A or 5 in English B (Higher Level or Standard Level)
Cambridge CEFR 185, with a minimum of 185 in each component
Oxford ELLT 8, with a minimum of 8 in each component
Oxford Test of English Advanced 146, with a minimum of 146 in each component
Duolingo Integrated subscores: 120 overall, with a minimum of 105 in each component
GCSE/IGCSE/O level English Language (as a first or second language) Grade C / Grade 4
LanguageCert SELT C1 with a minimum score of 33/50 in each component
LanguageCert Academic C1 with a minimum score of 25/50 in each component
Kaplan Test of English Language 510 Main Flight score with 510 in each component
Skills for English C1: Pass overall, with Pass in each component
PTE Academic 67, with a minimum of 67 in each component
TOEFL 96 overall, with a minimum of 24 in each component
Trinity ISE III Distinction in all components
Other English language qualifications We also accept other English Language qualifications, including various school-leaving certificates.

For more information see our undergraduate English language requirements.

If you haven't met our English language requirements

You may be eligible for one of our pre-sessional English language courses. These courses will provide you with the level of English needed to meet the conditions of your offer.

The length of course you need to take depends on your current English language test scores and how much you need to improve to reach our English language requirements.

After you've accepted your offer to study at York, we'll confirm which pre-sessional course you should apply to via You@York.

Applying

To apply to York, you'll need to complete an online application via UCAS (the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service).

You must provide a reference on your application. This preferably should be an academic reference from your school or college. If you are in employment then you can supply a reference from your employer. If you do not supply a reference when you apply your application may not be considered.

Please note: You only need to apply to either the BMid or the MMid course, not both.

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Get in touch if you have any questions

Dr Catriona Jones

dohs-admissions@york.ac.uk

+44(0)1904 321321

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