Bachelor of Science (Honours) - Health and Wellbeing in Society

BSc (Hons) Health and Wellbeing in Society studies health where most of it is decided — outside hospitals: social determinants and inequalities, health behaviour and promotion, community and population approaches, policy and services, and the evaluation methods that public-health practice runs on, closing with an applied final-year project.

The course’s sociological-scientific blend mirrors the workforce it feeds — local-authority public health, NHS prevention services, social prescribing and the health third sector — and Leicester supplies an exceptional teaching context: a city whose health inequalities, diversity and community-health innovations appear in the national literature students read.

Progression architecture strengthens the counselling case here: DMU’s own public-health postgraduate provision sits one articulation step above this degree, and the sector’s employers sponsor master’s study for promising staff with increasing frequency — meaning the realistic financial plan can treat the £16,800-per-year bachelor’s as the only self-funded stage of a longer credential ladder, with employers underwriting the specialisation that follows once capability is demonstrated — the pattern now standard across local-authority public-health teams.

Learning is intervention-shaped — students design and appraise health-improvement programmes, practise the communication craft of health promotion across cultures and literacy levels, and work with real population datasets — producing the portfolio of applied work that public-health recruitment increasingly requests.

Graduates enter health-improvement, community-wellbeing and social-prescribing roles at £21,000–£25,000, with the public-health master’s route the standard progression for ambition; the sector’s expansion is policy-driven and durable. Completion of the honours award brings Graduate Route eligibility for the 18-month period governing post-2026 applications, dependants excluded on taught routes.