Course summary
Unlock your potential as an autonomous osteopathic practitioner with a course designed to elevate your expertise and transform your clinical practice. This programme gives you the opportunity to develop the competences required for independent osteopathic practice, while building on your existing strengths in musculoskeletal care. You’ll learn in a dynamic, student-centred environment that fosters critical thinking and practical application. Through immersive training, you’ll integrate advanced clinical knowledge with osteopathic evaluation and treatment skills—anchored in a deep understanding of osteopathic philosophy and principles. Expect to refine your diagnostic precision, enhance your manual therapeutic techniques, and develop a sophisticated approach to patient care. You’ll explore the intricate relationship between structure, function, and dysfunction, enabling you to deliver truly integrated osteopathic solutions for complex clinical presentations. Take the next step in your professional journey—expand your scope, deepen your expertise, and join a community committed to excellence in osteopathic care. The MSc pre-registration course in Osteopathy is a two-year full-time course, which will develop safe, competent and effective osteopathic clinicians who can apply for registration with the General Osteopathic Council on completion of the course. This dynamic, full-time, postgraduate programme is designed for qualified chiropractors, sports therapists, physiotherapists, and medical practitioners who want to take their expertise to the next level. It equips participants with the required clinical competence profile for registration with the General Osteopathic Council (GOsC) and empowers clinicians to seamlessly integrate osteopathy into their existing healthcare practice—whether in sports therapy, chiropractic, physiotherapy, or medicine.
Assessment method
The course is assessed through both summative and formative assessments including practical and clinical examinations; critical essays; peer reviews; presentations and written exams. The course will build upon your knowledge and skills of evidence-based practice and research to complete a small-scale research project at the end of the course.
Professional bodies
Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.
- General Osteopathic Council
How to apply
International applicants
Please note to be accepted onto this course; you will also need to demonstrate that you meet the minimum standards of English. For this course, applicants are required to achieve the equivalent of an IELTS (academic) score of 7.0 or above with no less than 6.0 in each section.
Entry requirements
Normally a first or second class (2:1 or 2:2) BSc (Hons) degree in a relevant health science-based subject. Examples of relevant subjects include medicine, nursing, occupational health, international osteopathic qualifications, physiotherapy, chiropractic, sports therapy or rehabilitation. Other, relevant, degrees can be considered on an individual basis.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| England | £9790 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £9790 | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £9790 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £9790 | Year 1 |
| Channel Islands | £9790 | Year 1 |
| Republic of Ireland | £9790 | Year 1 |
| EU | £17684 | Year 1 |
| International | £17684 | Year 1 |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Provider information
Health Sciences University
Parkwood Campus
Parkwood Road
Bournemouth
BH5 2DF