Speech and Language Therapy Master of Medical Science

Study this accredited, campus-based masters course and qualify as a speech and language therapist. Explore topics ranging from anatomy to psychology, and apply your knowledge at our specialist speech and language therapy clinic and on clinical placements.

Course description\
Applications for 2027 entry will close in early December 2026.

This accredited masters course qualifies you to practice as a speech and language therapist in a variety of health and education settings. It can be studied full-time, over two years, or part-time, over three years.

You will study a wide variety of differences that adults and children can have with communicating and/or eating, drinking and swallowing. Topics range from anatomy and physiology, and their relationship with speech and language pathology, to the psychological and sociological factors that can affect communication.

Throughout your degree, you’ll learn how to assess an individual’s communication or eating, drinking and swallowing difficulty, identify suitable interventions and support their progress. You’ll work closely with service users, family members, carers and related professionals to support the people you are working with. You will also complete pre-registration eating, drinking and swallowing competencies, set by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT).

You’ll put your training into practice through a series of clinical placements, both within the University of Sheffield’s in-house speech and language therapy clinic and on external clinical placements.

The course is led by a supportive team of clinical and research specialists, including speech and language therapists, psychologists, audiologists, linguists, information technologists, and medical practitioners. The University is a world-leading centre of research, and our teams will embed the latest research into your teaching to help you to make evidence-based decisions in future practice.

### Clinical placements

You’ll put your newly acquired knowledge into practice in clinical placements throughout the programme, starting from the very first semester. This includes work with children and adults in both health and education environments, as well as at our dedicated in-house speech and language therapy clinic.

During semesters one and two, placements run alongside teaching, so that you can link the topics you are studying to clinical practice. You will then spend part of the summer each year on clinical placements.

* Full-time students spend five weeks (25 days) on clinical placement over the summer at the end of level one and level two.

* Part-time students spend five weeks (15 days) on clinical placement over the summer at the end of level one, two and three. Summer placements usually take place over three days a week, on the same days of the week as semester two of that year. However, it’s possible that these dates can be more flexible over the summer so if a different schedule would be more suitable this can be discussed with your placement provider.

Clinical placements take place across our placement region (including Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Chesterfield, Derby and Nottinghamshire). Travel is therefore expected.

Accreditation

This course is approved by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and the Health and Care Professions Council.

Please see our University website for the most up-to-date course information.