Course summary
You’ll benefit from a range of stimulating learning opportunities. Taught by our academic faculty, practitioners and experts by experience, you’ll also get to work with service-users and carers. You’ll work within a supportive study environment. This will help you develop crucial skills for independent and collaborative learning. Learn from people influencing social care. We work with local social welfare agencies on joint projects. These include development, training and research initiatives. The MA in Social Work is a generic social work qualification. This means you’ll gain knowledge in a wide range of areas, ready to work in practice contexts that support, among others:
- vulnerable children, young people and families
- adults and older people
- people experiencing mental health, disability, substance use or homelessness challenges
- asylum seekers and refugees.
Modules
Please check our website in January 2024 for the modules running in the academic year 2024/25.
Entry requirements
You should normally have a lower second-class (2.2) undergraduate honours degree or above. Your undergraduate degree can be in any subject. You must have GCSE Mathematics and English (or equivalent) at grade C or above.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
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
Sponsorship information
Our goal is to ensure that every student who wants to study with us is able to regardless of financial barriers, so that we continue to attract talented and unique people. Details of our scholarships are not yet set for entry in the academic year 2024/25.
Provider information
University of Sussex
Sussex House
Brighton
BN1 9RH