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Physiotherapy with Foundation Year

Course details
  • Msci (Hon)
  • 5 Years
  • Full-time including foundation year
  • 09/2025
  • Undergraduate
Course location
Main Site

Course summary

Foundation Year
Our Foundation Year provides an excellent alternative route to Keele, providing a unique opportunity to better prepare for your chosen degree, and with guaranteed entry onto your undergraduate course once you successfully complete your Foundation Year. This extra year of study can improve your academic skills, expand your subject knowledge, give you a better understanding of higher education and, perhaps most importantly of all, build your confidence. On the Keele Foundation Year, you'll study on campus, joining our undergraduate community from the outset, with access to all the facilities and support that you'd get as an undergraduate student at Keele.

Physiotherapy
Accelerate your physiotherapy career with our diverse and innovative four-year Master’s programme. Become a highly competent and clinically astute physiotherapist who can improve people's quality of life and physical wellbeing by restoring, maintaining and enhancing their function and movement.

Why choose this course

  • Accredited by the UK Health and Care Professions Council

  • Top 10 for Physiotherapy (Guardian University League Table, 2023)

  • Accredited by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

  • Gain extra experience and qualify with a Masters

Accelerate your physiotherapy career with our diverse and innovative four-year Master’s programme. Become a highly competent and clinically astute physiotherapist who can improve people's quality of life and physical wellbeing by restoring, maintaining and enhancing their function and movement.

As a physiotherapist you will use physical approaches to strengthen and maintain people's physical, psychological, and social wellbeing, optimising their general health and helping to prevent illness. Physiotherapy at Keele provides you with an exceptional breadth of theoretical knowledge and practical experience to enable you to deliver high quality patient centred care.

This innovative course has been carefully designed to reflect physiotherapy in the 21st century and is flexible and future proof to accommodate the changing demands of health and social care, and the profession globally. You will develop the required competencies and clinical skills, which are underpinned by evidence to enable you to deliver high quality, safe and effective care that meets the needs of patients.

About Keele
Keele University was established in 1949 by the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Founded to meet the needs of a changing world, Keele has always had a pioneering vision to be a different kind of university.

We excel in both teaching and research, with some of the most satisfied students in England, and research that is changing lives for the better at a regional, national and global level.

Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.

Modules

For a list of indicative modules please visit the course page on the Keele University website.

How to apply

Apply by
29 January

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
B1B9
Institution code:
K12
Campus name:
Main Site
Campus Code:
-

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Foundation

Open days

Entry requirements

UCAS Tariff

104 UCAS points including at least one Level 3 qualification (such as an A level, BTEC, Access Course, or T level) OR 96 UCAS points including A level / Scottish Higher / IB Diploma Physics, Chemistry or Biology, T Level Health, Healthcare Science or Science, or BTEC Applied Human Biology or Applied Science (any level)

A level

104 UCAS points including at least one Level 3 qualification OR 96 UCAS points including A level Physics, Chemistry or Biology

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)

104 UCAS points including at least one Level 3 qualification OR 96 UCAS points including BTEC Applied Human Biology or Applied Science (any level)

Access to HE Diploma

104 UCAS points including at least one Level 3 qualification OR 96 UCAS points including A level / Scottish Higher / IB Diploma Physics, Chemistry or Biology, T Level Health, Healthcare Science or Science, or BTEC Applied Human Biology or Applied Science (any level)

Scottish Higher

104 UCAS points including at least one Level 3 qualification OR 96 UCAS points including Scottish Higher Physics, Chemistry or Biology

International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

104 UCAS points including at least one Level 3 qualification OR 96 UCAS points including IB Diploma Physics, Chemistry or Biology

GCSE/National 4/National 5

GCSE English at grade C (or 4) OR Level 2 Functional Skills English AND GCSE Maths at grade C (or 4) or Level 2 Functional Skills Maths

T Level

104 UCAS points including at least one Level 3 qualification OR 96 UCAS points including T Level Health, Healthcare Science or Science

Please see our website for our full range of entry requirements

Find out more about qualification requirements for this course.

Additional entry requirements

Criminal records declaration (DBS/Disclosure Scotland)
A satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check (Enhanced plus Barring Lists) will be required for successful candidates.
Health checks
A satisfactory health check will be required for successful candidates.
Interview
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend an interview.

Historical entry grades data BETA

This section shows the range of grades students (with UK A-Levels or Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diplomas) who received offers were previously accepted with (learn more). It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place. Admissions teams consider various factors, including interviews, subject requirements, and entrance tests. Check all course entry requirements for eligibility.

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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

Please note, our fees for 2025 entry will be available soon. Although we review our fees annually and these may change, our 2024 entry fees are detailed on our course pages, and a summary is available on our website: keele.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/tuitionfeesandfunding/undergraduatetuitionfees/

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