Overview
The Global Healthcare Management MSc at Brunel University London is a dynamic and future-focused programme designed to develop the next generation of healthcare leaders, policymakers, and innovators. This course equips students with the critical knowledge, practical skills, and global perspective needed to manage and transform healthcare systems in an era of rapid change and complexity.
You'll explore and evaluate key theoretical frameworks and real-world approaches to healthcare management, with a strong emphasis on:
- Policy evaluation and economic impact
- Global Healthcare
- Leadership and innovation in healthcare
- Executive governance in healthcare systems
The programme also offers in-depth study of specialised areas such as diversity management, financial resource management, and healthcare technology. You’ll develop advanced research capabilities, enabling you to design and conduct impactful studies that inform both policy and practice.
Beyond academic excellence, the MSc supports your personal and professional development, fostering critical thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving skills. You’ll gain transferable skills that support lifelong learning and career progression in a wide range of healthcare settings.
Whether you're aiming to lead healthcare organisations, influence policy, or drive innovation, this MSc provides the foundation to make a meaningful impact on health systems around the world.
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Course content
Brunel's Global Healthcare Management MSc offers a well-structured and academically rigorous curriculum designed to build both specialist expertise and research capability. We offer a hybrid delivery format for all specialist modules, and all lectures and recorded and made available on Brightspace.
You'll complete:
- Three compulsory specialist modules focused on core areas of global healthcare management, executive governance and managing change in healthcare, managing and leading in healthcare organisations, global healthcare policy evaluation and health economics.
- One research methods module to develop essential analytical and investigative skills
- One dissertation module, where students undertake an independent research project
- Three optional modules; Financial Resources Management, Managing Global Challenges, Technology Management, from which one can be selected to tailor the learning experience
The compulsory modules provide a strong foundation in healthcare management theory and practice. The research methods and dissertation modules are central to the programme, enabling you to design and execute a research project that integrates theoretical frameworks with real-world data analysis. The dissertation will challenge you to critically evaluate findings and consider their implications for healthcare policy and practice.
Compulsory
- Executive Governance and Managing Change in Healthcare
This module prepares you to lead effective governance and change in global healthcare systems. You’ll explore key roles and responsibilities in executive governance, develop frameworks aligned with organisational goals, and enhance collaboration with stakeholders. The module also covers risk management, compliance, technology and data governance, and the use of performance metrics. You'll also gain practical skills in leading change, managing resistance, and driving continuous improvement and innovation in healthcare organisations.
- Global Healthcare Policy Evaluation and Health Economics
This module offers a critical insight into the political and economic forces shaping healthcare worldwide. You’ll explore how health policies are developed and implemented globally, and gain key economic knowledge related to healthcare spending, productivity, and market dynamics. Through real-world case studies, you'll evaluate your role in policy processes and apply economic tools to tackle complex healthcare management challenges.
- Managing and Leading in Healthcare Organisations
This module prepares you to become an effective leader in global healthcare settings. You'll explore contemporary leadership theories, management practices, and coaching skills to enhance team performance and drive innovation. Through real-world case studies and group activities, you'll strengthen your strategic thinking, problem-solving, and critical analysis—equipping you to lead change and tackle complex challenges in healthcare organisations.
- MG5643 - Understanding Business and Management Research
This module introduces the fundamentals of quantitative and qualitative research methods in management and their application to complex problems in health management. Students will learn how to collect and analyse data from various sources and critically reflect on the practical and ethical implications of their findings for the day-to-day operations of healthcare organisations.
- MG5642 - Dissertation
This module critically examines the issues and challenges that confront managers responsible for financial management. Students discuss the concepts, topics, methodological approaches and tools relevant to the analysis of the financial standing of organisations. They develop an understanding of the implementation of financial strategies and policies and their operational implications.
Optional
- MG5556 - Financial Resources Management
This module critically examines the issues and challenges that confront managers responsible for financial management. Students discuss the concepts, topics, methodological approaches and tools relevant to the analysis of the financial standing of organisations. They develop an understanding of the implementation of financial strategies and policies and their operational implications.
- Managing Global Challanges
Explore how organisations navigate global complexity by managing diverse workforces across international, multinational, and transnational contexts. This module examines how strategies, policies, and initiatives—like training and development—are designed to address social, cultural, and individual differences in values, beliefs, and working styles. You'll gain practical insights into how global organisations adapt and thrive in the face of today’s most pressing management challenges.
- MG5598 - Technology Management
This module aims to enhance and demonstrate a critical and practical understanding of the issues associated with modern technology management and business development. It highlights the challenges associated with the adoption of potentially disruptive technologies in organisations and nurtures critical reflection on the current theory and practice of technology management.
Optional
- MG5556 - Financial Resources Management
This module critically examines the issues and challenges that confront managers responsible for financial management. Students discuss the concepts, topics, methodological approaches and tools relevant to the analysis of the financial standing of organisations. They develop an understanding of the implementation of financial strategies and policies and their operational implications.
- Managing Global Challanges
Explore how organisations navigate global complexity by managing diverse workforces across international, multinational, and transnational contexts. This module examines how strategies, policies, and initiatives—like training and development—are designed to address social, cultural, and individual differences in values, beliefs, and working styles. You'll gain practical insights into how global organisations adapt and thrive in the face of today’s most pressing management challenges.
- MG5598 - Technology Management
This module aims to enhance and demonstrate a critical and practical understanding of the issues associated with modern technology management and business development. It highlights the challenges associated with the adoption of potentially disruptive technologies in organisations and nurtures critical reflection on the current theory and practice of technology management.
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Please note that all modules are subject to change.
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Careers and your future
Employability is at the heart of what we do. With dedicated support from Brunel’s Professional Development Centre, we ensure that every student gets real value from their educational investment, and is fully prepared to take the next step in their career. Whether you’re aiming to work in hospital management, health consultancy, or even healthcare policy, this MSc will give you the foundation and the confidence to succeed.
The Global Healthcare Management MSc is designed for individuals aspiring to careers in healthcare leadership, policy analysis, consultancy, or research within public, private, or non-governmental sectors. It's also suited for practitioners seeking an in-depth Master’s qualification with a global perspective.
Through a combination of core and optional modules, you can tailor your learning experience to align with your professional aspirations and the demands of the global healthcare landscape.
UK entry requirements
- A 2.2 (or above) UK Honours degree or an equivalent internationally recognised qualification in or a related or non-related subject. Work experience is not required.
EU and International entry requirements
If you require a Tier 4 visa to study in the UK, you must prove knowledge of the English language so that we can issue you a Certificate of Acceptance for Study (CAS). To do this, you will need an IELTS for UKVI or Trinity SELT test pass gained from a test centre approved by UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) and on the Secure English Language Testing (SELT) list. This must have been taken and passed within two years from the date the CAS is made.
English language requirements
- IELTS: 6.5 (min 6 in all areas)
- Pearson: 59 (59 in all subscores)
- BrunELT: 63% (min 58% in all areas)
- TOEFL: 90 (min 20 in all)
You can find out more about the qualifications we accept on our English Language Requirements page.
Should you wish to take a pre-sessional English course to improve your English prior to starting your degree course, you must sit the test at an approved SELT provider for the same reason. We offer our own BrunELT English test and have pre-sessional English language courses for students who do not meet requirements or who wish to improve their English. You can find out more information on English courses and test options through our Brunel Language Centre.
Please check our Admissions pages for more information on other factors we use to assess applicants. This information is for guidance only and each application is assessed on a case-by-case basis. Entry requirements are subject to review, and may change.
Fees and funding
2025/6 entry
International
£22,320 full-time
£11,160 part-time
UK
£14,435 full-time
£7,215 part-time
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Fees quoted are per year and are subject to an annual increase.
See our fees and funding page for full details of postgraduate scholarships available to Brunel applicants.
Scholarships and bursaries
Teaching and learning
At Brunel Business School (BBS), you will experience a rich and engaging on-campus learning environment. Our modules are delivered through engaging lectures, and in most modules, through seminars that allow for interactions in smaller groups. Additionally, you will have access to a wide range of resources on Brightspace, our online learning platform, including PowerPoint slides, video recordings, and peer-reviewed academic publications that align with the module learning objectives.
Moreover, BBS students benefit from a range of support and opportunities from our dedicated staff and faculty, such as:
- Extra-curricular activities designed to enhance your skills and expand your network, such as social events, guest speakers and industry visits/field trips. Our students will have the opportunity to attend the American Economic Study Group and the Workshop of Empirical Health Economics. In addition, through our affiliation with the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, students will be able to attend online workshops in healthcare and health economics.
- A dedicated Student Experience Team to provide pastoral care
- A dedicated ASK Academic Skills support team to help you understand and address coursework requirements
- Personalised tutoring and wellbeing advice to support your academic and personal development
- Employability guidance and career planning from our in-house director.
Access to a laptop or desktop PC is required for joining online activities, completing coursework and digital exams, and a minimum specification can be found here.
We have computers available across campus for your use and laptop loan schemes to support you through your studies. You can find out more here.
Teaching includes lectures, informal small study groups, and individual or group presentations using a laptop and digital projector.
Contributing to Brunel Business School (BBS), and University’s strategic objectives in relation to creating a vibrant and inclusive research environment and culture, as well as, to help students evolve into reflective practitioners and engaged citizens, this programme is based on research led and practice-oriented approaches to teaching and learning which among else include:
- Action-based learning
- Team-based learning
- Experiential Learning
- Business simulations and role play
- Debates
- Guest speaker presentations
You will work with real-world case studies and engage with experienced faculty members and sector experts from organisations such as the NHS and international healthcare companies.
Assessment and feedback
Modules are usually assessed by individual assessment or group assessment in January or May.
The assessment strategy is designed to enable learners demonstrate their standard of competence on the programme’s learning outcomes and incorporate crucial authentic elements that foster deep learning, self-direction, consolidation of experiences, relevance of skills to professional practice, problem solving, and interaction.
Our assessments reflect the realities of healthcare management: business reports, strategic case analyses, group presentations, and reflective portfolios — all designed to build skills that are directly transferable to the workplace. Students have to complete a dissertation project which can be conducted with a company or health organisation.
Your dissertation is a 12,000 word document that will show your ability to conceive, design and execute a major project, which confidently substantiates your chosen line of enquiry. The dissertation project can be conducted with a company or a health organisation.
Read our guide on how to avoid plagiarism in your assessments at Brunel.