Health and Wellbeing courses
Are you interested in the science behind what makes us healthy? Do you want to develop a career in a wellbeing or healthcare setting? Our health and wellbeing courses offer varied qualifications in a personally rewarding subject. Choose from our range of degrees, diplomas and certificates below to open up career opportunities in this rapidly growing sector.
Health and Wellbeing
Degrees
- Also known as an undergraduate or bachelors degree.
- Internationally respected, universally understood.
- An essential requirement for many high-level jobs.
- Gain a thorough understanding of your subject – and the tools to investigate, think critically, form reasoned arguments, solve problems and communicate effectively in new contexts.
- Progress to higher level study, such as a postgraduate diploma or masters degree.
- Credits measure the student workload required for the successful completion of a module or qualification.
- One credit represents about 10 hours of study over the duration of the course.
- You are awarded credits after you have successfully completed a module.
- For example, if you study a 60-credit module and successfully pass it, you will be awarded 60 credits.
How long will it take?
Health and Wellbeing
Diplomas
- Widely recognised qualification.
- Equivalent to the first two thirds of an honours degree.
- Enhance your professional and technical skills or extend your knowledge and understanding of a subject.
- Study for interest or career development.
- Top up to a full honours degree in just two years.
- Credits measure the student workload required for the successful completion of a module or qualification.
- One credit represents about 10 hours of study over the duration of the course.
- You are awarded credits after you have successfully completed a module.
- For example, if you study a 60-credit module and successfully pass it, you will be awarded 60 credits.
How long will it take?
Health and Wellbeing
Certificates
- Widely recognised qualification.
- Equivalent to the first third of an honours degree.
- Study for interest or career development.
- Shows that you can study successfully at university level.
- Count it towards further qualifications such as a DipHE or honours degree.
- Credits measure the student workload required for the successful completion of a module or qualification.
- One credit represents about 10 hours of study over the duration of the course.
- You are awarded credits after you have successfully completed a module.
- For example, if you study a 60-credit module and successfully pass it, you will be awarded 60 credits.
How long will it take?
Why study Health and Wellbeing with The Open University?
For over 30 years, we’ve been delivering supported and open distance learning in health and wellbeing. You’ll learn from highly-respected materials used across a variety of disciplines and professions. With over 12,000 wellbeing, health and social care students, you’ll be studying with one of the largest and most innovative educational providers in this sector.
The benefits of studying health and wellbeing with us are:
- Stay in your job while you study. You can fit our flexible learning around your work and social commitments.
- We work in partnership with employers to provide learning programmes that meet their changing needs.
- We have a strong track record in applied health and social care research, benefitting from funding from Research Councils (ESRC and AHRC), and the National Institute for Health Research.
- We use innovative technology such as augmented reality to enhance your learning.
Careers in Health and Wellbeing
Studying for an Open University qualification in health and wellbeing is ideal for personal development or career progression. We offer a unique work-based pre-registration nursing programme with a flexible qualifying route into mental health nursing, together with a range of modules and awards for professional development if you work in a sport, wellbeing or caring role.
Our range of health and wellbeing courses can help you start or progress your career in:
- Sport and fitness
- Community development
- Health education
- Mental health nursing
Looking for something other than a qualification?
The majority of our modules can be studied by themselves, on a stand-alone basis. If you later choose to work towards a qualification, you may be able to count your study towards it.
All Health and Wellbeing courses
Browse all the Health and Wellbeing courses we offer – certificates, diplomas and degrees.
See our full list of Health and Wellbeing courses
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