BSc (Hons) Speech and Language Therapy
Become a skilled, compassionate speech and language therapist
Become a skilled, compassionate speech and language therapist
- Complete over 600 hours of practical placements
- Receive at least £5,000 NHS funding per year
- Be eligible to apply for registration as a Speech and Language Therapist when you graduate
- Accreditation by the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists to be confirmed
Top 30
UK university
out of 123 institutions
Guardian University Guide 2026
Gold
rated in the Teaching Excellence Framwork
TEF 2023
Top 30
in the UK for teaching quality
The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025
Overview
NHS Funding
Receive at least £5,000 a year of NHS funding on this course, with up to £3,000 further funding available for eligible students. Find out more on the NHS website.
Do you want to make a real difference in people’s lives by helping them communicate and connect with the world?
Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs) are professionals who help children and adults who have difficulties with communication or eating, drinking or swallowing.
Our BSc (Hons) Speech and Language Therapy course offers you the knowledge, clinical skills, and confidence to become a compassionate and capable healthcare professional.
Accreditation
This course is due to be accredited by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT).
When you graduate from this course, you will be eligible to apply for registration as a Speech and Language Therapist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
The Course
What you will study
Throughout the course, you will explore:
- Anatomy, physiology, and neuroscience of communication and swallowing
- Language development and disorders
- Phonetics and phonology
- Clinical linguistics
- Eating, drinking, and swallowing competencies
- Evidence-based assessment and intervention
- Interprofessional collaboration and leadership in health and care.
Modules
Level 4
- Personal and professional values and behaviours 1
- Understanding evidence
- Integrated Health Sciences
- Communication
- Clinical populations and management approaches & placement 1
- Supporting services users
Level 5
- Personal and professional values and behaviours 2
- Placement 2
- Clinical, technical and scientific roles and responsibilities 1 assessments (children and young people)
- Clinical, technical and scientific roles and responsibilities 2 assessments (adults)
- Clinical, technical and scientific roles and responsibilities 3 assessment (eating, drinking and swallowing) & placement 3
- Critical enquiry – protocol
Level 6
- Transition to professional practice
- Placement 4
- Clinical, technical and scientific roles and responsibilities 4 intervention (children and young people)
- Clinical, technical and scientific roles and responsibilities 5 intervention (adults)
- Clinical, technical and scientific roles and responsibilities 6 intervention (eating, drinking and swallowing)
- Critical evaluation of health – research study
Teaching and Assessment
How you will learn
Work alongside our practice-experienced staff
The course is delivered by experienced lecturers who are registered clinicians with the Health Care Professional Council (HCPC). Learn from practising therapists and experienced academics who are passionate about inclusive communication.
We are a research-led School with academic staff actively engaged in research.
This provides our students with access to current thinking and cutting-edge research, which will inform their practice. We also have state-of-the-art on-campus simulation suites and therapy resources.
Practice-Based Learning
We offer over 600 hours of placement experience in NHS, private, education, and community settings.
Real-World Clinical Experience
From your first year, you’ll engage in supervised placements across a variety of health, education, and social care settings. You’ll develop essential clinical competencies while building your confidence and adaptability as a future clinician.
Facilities
Next-level facilities that power your learning
Immersive sensory learning technologies
Explore our immersive learning and simulation rooms that recreate sounds and visuals from a range of clinical settings, supported with the latest virtual reality technologies.
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Immersive Simulation Room
Simulation Room 2
Simulated community settings
Practice your communication skills and managing difficult situations via Forum theatre and with actors.
Immersive sensory learning technologies
Experience our immersive learning room that recreates sounds and visuals from a range of clinical settings, supported with the latest virtual reality technologies.
Learning Resource Centre
The Learning Resource Centre (LRC) contains the library, a café, IT/teaching rooms and the Support and Information Zone (SIZ).
Library
Our campus library holds more than 200,000 books and over 500,000 eBooks.
Careers
Where you could go after your studies
Graduates are eligible to register with HCPC and start working immediately as a qualified SLT.
SLTs in the UK are based in a variety of different settings, including community health centres, acute hospital wards and outpatient departments, in research, in universities, at mainstream and special schools, in assessment units and day centres, in the care system and in their clients’ own homes.
Some work in courtrooms, prisons and young offenders’ institutions. The range of professional opportunities for SLTs is extensive, with many options to develop an area of expertise.
Course Costs
Course Fees 2026/27
UK fee
International fee
If this is your second undergraduate degree, you may still be eligible for full student finance support for this course, including a Tuition Fee Loan, Maintenance Loan, and any applicable targeted grants.
For further details about fees, please see our Tuition Fee page.
For further details about international scholarships, please see our Scholarships page.
To find out about any additional costs on this course, please see our Additional Costs page.
EU/EEA Fee Reduction Scholarship
EU/EEA students automatically pay the equivalent of UK fees via the EU/EEA Fee Reduction Scholarship.
Interview
Your interview will be conducted online through SAMMI®, a flexible and user-friendly virtual platform. This means you can complete your interview at a time that works best for you within your chosen six-day window. The interview will follow a Multiple Mini-Interview format, designed to give us a well-rounded view of the skills and qualities you need to become a competent Health Care Practitioner.
For more information on the interview process, please visit our Interviews and Auditions page.
Entry Requirements
Typical offers (individual offers may vary):
UCAS
A Levels
BTEC
GCSEs
IELTS
Foundation Year in Health and Exercise Science
If you are concerned about the required grades for Speech and Language Therapy, we offer an access route via our Foundation Year programme. Upon successful completion of the Foundation Year, you can progress directly to the BSc (Hons) Speech and Language Therapy degree.
Please note that this Foundation Year is academically part of the BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Foundation Year programme. After successful completion of year one, you simply confirm your switch to the Speech and Language Therapy degree (or choose one of our other listed Health or Sport routes).
As Speech and Language Therapy is a regulated profession, your entry is also conditional on a successful interview, occupational health checks, and appropriate DBS clearances.
For more information about this route of entry, visit our Foundation Year in Health and Exercise Science course page or email admissions@chi.ac.uk.
Contextual offers
We believe everyone deserves an equal opportunity to pursue higher education, regardless of their background.
When we receive your application we consider your personal circumstances and the factors surrounding your achievements to see if you are eligible for a contextual offer. This is an offer with a reduced entry tariff – typically the equivalent of 8 fewer UCAS points (one A-level grade).
Find out more about our contextual offers.
Background checks
We are required to verify that you are of good health and character. We achieve this through a satisfactory occupational health assessment and enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check on entering the programme. You are required to self-declare this on an annual basis.
