Guy’s Campus
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Overview
From bump to birth and beyond, midwives play a critical role caring for women and birthing people by safely bringing their babies into the world. At King’s College London, we prepare you for everything you’ll face in that journey. You’ll learn from both clinical and academic teachers while developing practical skills through simulation and placement.
Learn how to manage a range of emergencies effectively. Study case studies drawn from clinical practice. Develop a reflective approach to care – especially when reviewing complex midwifery and obstetric situations and common medical disorders encountered in childbearing women and birthing people.
You’ll explore the role and responsibilities of midwives while discussing key areas like biosciences and optimising birth. With the chance to do an elective placement, you can also explore national and international perspectives of maternal health. Past students have worked in the prison service and rural areas like the Scottish Hebrides, as well as abroad in Germany and Tanzania.
By the end of the course, you’ll be confident providing holistic, evidence-based, woman-led midwifery care before conception, throughout pregnancy and during the postpartum period.
Key benefits
- You will be studying at the #1 university for nursing in the world (2025 QS World University Rankings).
- You'll have the option to take a three-week elective placement in the UK or abroad during year 2
- Learn from internationally renowned clinicians and academics with a strong focus on promoting evidence-based care
- Understand the link between education and practice with lectures from clinical teachers who are midwives working in the field
- Exciting opportunities with two Academic Health Science Centres and renowned teaching hospitals providing maternity care
- A training grant of £5,000 from the NHS Learning Support Fund (LSF), and financial support for excess placement travel or accommodation costs
The teaching staff are all so approachable, and it is very important to have that academic and placement related support within such an intense degree. The facilities, education, and support that KCL offer are incredible!
AmalMidwifery Graduate
Course aims
- You’ll experience a broad range of subjects relevant to midwifery. From biosciences to complexities in childbearing, this programme gives you a thorough understanding of the profession.
- The Midwifery BSc at King’s offers the opportunity for students to study for professional registration as a Midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
- The course will equip you with the skills to become a competent midwifery practitioner who is confident in promoting high-quality, evidence- based maternity care to women, babies and families.
- We emphasise the distinct role and responsibilities of midwives explore local, national and international contexts of maternal health and to undertake an elective at the end of year three.
- You will learn how to manage a range of emergency situations effectively. You will be encouraged to reflect on case-studies drawn from clinical practice to develop a reflective approach to care, particularly when reviewing complex midwifery and obstetric situations and common medical disorders encountered in childbearing women.
- Holistic, evidence-based woman-led midwifery care from pre-conception to throughout the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods.
Key Information
UCAS code:
B720
Course type:
Single honours
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full-time
Required A-Levels:
ABB
Duration:
Three years
Application status:
Start date:
September 2026
Application deadline:
Administrative bodies
Awarding body
King's College London and Affiliates
Regulating body
Base campuses
Waterloo Campus
Centrally located and well connected, Waterloo brings together students from health, science and law, just steps from the South Bank. It's also home to the world's #2 nursing school – the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery (QS 2026).