Undergraduate courses/Allied Health Professions courses/Healthcare Science (Audiology)

Key facts

Entry requirements

128 or DMM

Full entry requirements

UCAS code

B61A

Institution code

D26

Duration

3 yrs full-time

Three year full-time

Fees

2025/26 UK tuition fees:
£9,535*

Additional costs

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Entry requirements

128 or DMM

Full entry requirements

UCAS code

B61A

Duration

Three year full-time

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Transform lives through sound. Study Healthcare Science (Audiology) BSc (Hons) and gain the skills to diagnose, treat, and support hearing and balance disorders.

At DMU, you'll learn to test a baby's hearing, manage dizziness, and help adults with hearing loss, all while building a strong scientific foundation in anatomy, research, and sound. Practical skills are honed through a mandatory clinical placement, giving you hands-on experience.

Our course uses a 6-week block-teaching model, allowing you to focus deeply on one topic at a time. Whether you want to become an audiologist, hearing aid dispenser, or explore research, this approach will ensure you become a highly skilled practitioner with patient care at the core of everything you do.

Our graduates work in hospitals, private clinics, research, and education, collaborating with doctors, psychologists, and other healthcare professionals.

  • Top 10 for Health Professions: Our Health Professions courses are ranked 9th best in the UK by The Guardian University Guide 2025. 
  • An accredited course: Our course is approved by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and accredited by the National School of Healthcare Science; this means that upon graduation you are eligible to apply for registration with the Academy of Healthcare Science and the HCPC.
  • Become career ready: Our graduates thrive in roles as audiologists and hearing aid dispensers - making an impact at organisations like the NHS, Boots UK, and Specsavers Ltd.
  • Authentic facilities: Learn in state-of-the-art clinical teaching spaces, equipped with the latest technology.
  • Industry-informed teaching: Study alongside experienced staff, industry professionals, and clinical experts.
  • Focused learning: Modules are delivered through our block teaching approach, so you can concentrate on one subject at a time.
  • Boost your employability: Complete a 30-week mandatory placement, gaining real-world experience and boosting employability. This placement builds skills employers want, resulting in a high proportion of our students securing job offers prior to graduation.
  • Global experience: Gain international experience through DMU Global, with past opportunities including clinics in India, conferences in Canada and South Africa, and more.

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What you will study

Introduction to Audiology

Sound, Hearing and Hearing Development

Introduction to Aural Rehabilitation and Therapy

Clinical Audiology 1

People and Data

Diagnostic Audiology: Objective Testing and Balance

Clinical Audiology 2

Placement and Professional Practice 1

Placement and Professional Practice 2

Advanced Audiovestibular Assessment and Management

Advanced Rehabiliation, Paediatric Assessment and Management

Enquiry-based Project

Study time are built into the placement to ensure that you can reflect on your learning and recap how theory links to practice.

Placements will allow you to develop your professional skills, time management, team working, leadership and management qualities. They will also instill a work ethic and help you develop your overall readiness for whichever career destination you choose.

You should be aware that any disclosure on your DBS, or disclosed health issues or learning differences will be discussed with placement providers prior to placement allocation. It is important to note that placement providers may not be able to take a student depending on what is disclosed on their DBS – if this may affect you please seek advice before accepting a place on the course.

Whilst on placement, students must adhere to the uniform and dress code policy of the placement provider. NHS Trusts and other placement providers have given careful consideration to cultural and religious needs relating to uniform policies / dress codes. These policies/codes have been developed in conjunction with local and national cultural and religious bodies to ensure that local and national infection control guidance is adhered to. Whilst every attempt has been made to accommodate individual needs, there are some areas where the need to fully comply with infection control guidance has overridden religious requirements.

There is no guarantee that a placement will be near Leicester or your family home address. We can only allocate placements that meet our criteria and that are available at the time that you are due to start your placement. You will always be notified in advance of your placement allocation.

If you decline your allocated placement this could result in a delay in allocating you an alternative placement, which in turn will impact on when you complete your programme and are able to graduate.

Typically, placements mimic the typical working week of the placement provider. You must complete 30 weeks on placement, excluding any annual leave and sickness, within the placement period.

NHS placements are unpaid and while on placements you are likely to incur additional travel and accommodation costs compared with a regular student attending university and requiring student accommodation. The university consider financial support on an individual basis, depending on placement location and circumstances.

Note: All modules are indicative and based on the current academic session. Course information is correct at the time of publication and is subject to review. Exact modules may, therefore, vary for your intake in order to keep content current. If there are changes to your course we will, where reasonable, take steps to inform you as appropriate.

Our programme utilises block-teaching, in which you will learn one topic at a time, for 6-weeks each. This allows you to have an in-depth focus, ensuring you have the best opportunity to grow in your knowledge and skills. We use a mix of teaching and assessment methods to reflect the dynamic and people focused nature of our field.

Teaching sessions include:

  • Formal and interactive lectures
  • Staff and student seminars
  • Tutorial discussions
  • Practical and clinical based workshops
  • Inter-professional (IP) learning with students from other healthcare professions

Assessment Methods includes:

  • Written exams
  • Coursework (essays, posters, wikis)
  • Presentations
  • Dissertation
  • Practical and clinically-based assessment activities

Teaching contact hours

Contact hours in a typical week vary from year to year. However, typically you will have up to 15 contact hours of teaching, as well as time spent on placement or in practical sessions and this will break down as:

Personal tutorial/small group teaching: approx. 1 hour of tutorials (or later, project supervision) each week

Medium group teaching: approx. 10 hours of practical classes, workshops or seminars each week

Large group teaching: approx. 10 hours of lectures each week

Personal study: 25 hours studying and revising in your own time each week, including some guided study using hand-outs, online activities, etc.

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Our facilities

Audiology facilities

We have substantially invested in our four audiology teaching spaces to enhance your learning. We have four dedicated audiological teaching suites to enhance your learning – two diagnostic and rehabilitation labs, a balance suite and a new paediatric suite. This purpose built and designed areas allow you to learn using the latest equipment and in a safe environment.

You’ll get hands-on training in our specially designed clinical teaching spaces; from learning how to safely look in an ear, how to test an adults’ hearing through to how to test young babies or treat dizziness.

Students can readily access the facilities during non-teaching times, to develop and practice their clinical skills and also to develop their final year projects. Our facilities, in terms of space and equipment are amongst the best in the UK and have been used by the prestigious international ‘Leicester Balance Course’ for a number of years. Our dedicated facilities are some of the best for Audiology teaching and training in the UK, we would strongly urge you to visit one of our open days to see these in action. 

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Our expertise

The staff team have a range of professional backgrounds, such as private, charity sector and public healthcare. Specialist areas of interest include balance, paediatrics, tinnitus and research. This combination of clinical and academic background facilitates high quality teaching and learning, which we are proud of and use to support you in your development and future career. We have an ‘open-door’ approach and always welcome interaction with students.

Accreditations, awards or memberships

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National School of Healthcare Science (NSHCS)

This course is accredited by the National School of Healthcare Science (NSHCS) and approved by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). 

Students are expected to adhere to the Standards of conduct, performance and ethics published by HCPC, and ensure they are fit to practise.

What makes us special

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DMU Global

This is our innovative international experience programme which aims to enrich your studies and expand your cultural horizons – helping you to become a global graduate, equipped to meet the needs of employers across the world. Through DMU Global, we offer a wide range of opportunities including on-campus and UK activities, overseas study, internships, faculty-led field trips and volunteering, as well as Erasmus+ and international exchanges.

Students on this course have previously undertaken DMU Global trips to India and the Special Olympics in Belgium, where they provided hearing tests. They’ve also been on trips to New York to consider the health risks of biological hazards in the city, taught science classes in Bermuda and helped refugees in Berlin.

Where we could take you

Audiology students

Clinical placements

You will undertake compulsory work placements mostly in the NHS, working with a range of people from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds, developing your clinical and professional skills. Placements are spread across the country and we try to ensure that you are placed where you will have the best chance of development.

You will have a 30-week placement which will usually start in the spring term of your second year and end in the autumn term of your third-year (including across the summer).

During your 30-week placement you will be supported by a clinical educator in practice, a university appointed clinical lecturer and your personal tutor. Throughout your placement we will maintain contact and support you in developing your clinical skills and acumen. 

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Graduate careers

Our course equips graduates for the ever-changing world of work, ready to adapt and problem-solve healthcare decisions of today and tomorrow. Our graduates are in high demand, with many securing employment prior to graduation.

Our graduates go on to work in a variety of roles, including within the NHS as Audiologists, and in the private sector as Hearing Aid Dispensers. Clinical roles include working with adults, paediatric and specialist populations. A number of graduates also progress to manage or become partners of their own branches, developing their managerial and leadership skills.

Graduates can also opt to work in settings such as in research or with hearing aid and audiology equipment manufacturers. Some choose to progress to further study, such as the NHS Scientist Training Programme, where they develop their clinical and research skills in audiology even further.

Healthcare Science (Audiology) graduate Layla Mohamed is now working at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth as a qualified clinical audiologist.

She said: “The DMU Audiology course ticked a lot of boxes for me in terms of working in the health sector, and job prospects were high. It is the greatest feeling when a patient comes back to me saying how much their life has improved and how much they have benefited from the treatment you have provided.”

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Course specifications

Course title

Healthcare Science (Audiology)

Award

BSc (Hons)

UCAS code

B61A

Institution code

D26

Study level

Undergraduate

Study mode

Full-time

Start date

September

Duration

Three year full-time

Fees

2025/26 UK tuition fees:
£9,535*

*subject to the government, as is expected, passing legislation to formalise the increase.

Additional costs

Entry requirements

GCSEs

  • Five GCSEs at grade C/4 or above including: English and Maths

Plus one of the following:

A Level

  • A minimum of 128 UCAS points from 2 or more A levels, with a science subject at grade B or above in one of the following -  Psychology, Biology, Human Biology, Physics, Chemistry or Maths / Further Maths

T Level

  • Distinction in Healthcare Science or Science (with optional module of Laboratory Science or Metrology Sciences not Food Science)

BTEC

  • BTEC National Diploma in Science at DDM
  • BTEC Extended Diploma in Science at DDM

Access course

  • Access to HE Diploma ‘Science’ or ‘Medicine & Healthcare Professions’ with 45 level 3 credits at Distinction

English and Maths GCSE required as separate qualifications. Equivalency not accepted within the Access qualification.

We will normally require students to have had a break from full-time education before undertaking the Access course.

International Baccalaureate: 30+ with six higher level points in a science subject

English language requirements

If English is not your first language an IELTS score of 7 overall when you start the course is essential, with a 7.0 in all components except writing which should be at least 6.5.

English language tuition, delivered by our British Council accredited Centre for English Language Learning (CELL), is available both before and during the course.

Work experience

Not essential, but to strengthen your application, experience with working directly with the public is positive.

Non-academic requirements

As well as academic requirements, you will also be required to meet and fulfil non-academic requirements which are stated below:

  • Self-Declaration Form clearance
  • Occupational Health clearance
  • Enhanced DBS disclosure clearance

You submit an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service disclosure application form before starting the course (if you are overseas you will also need to submit a criminal records certificate from your home country), which needs to be cleared in accordance with DMU’s admissions policy. Contact us for up-to-date information.

We strongly advise that you opt for the DBS update service as it is possible that future placement providers may request a recent DBS and not one from the start of the programme. If you decide not to opt for this service thenyou will have to pay for the DBS again if requested by your placement provided – the university will not cover this cost. 

As soon as you register with any health professional course you have to ensure that patient safety and welfare are central to anything that you do. Hence you need to be aware that the university has ‘Fitness to practise’ regulations that are in line with our course accreditation. This means that you have to abide by these regulations, including those that relate to personal health and well being when you enrol on the course, please refer to the HCPC ‘Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics’.

You need to inform the university if you have any additional support requirements for the placement component of the course such as a disability (in particular related to communication), medical condition or a mental health issue. This will then enable us to ensure that you are able to fully engage with the learning experience of the placement. If you have any concerns regarding this then you should seek advice before applying, as our placement providers may not be able to support you and hence the university may not be able to find a suitable placement for you.

You must meet and fulfil all non-academic requirements before 18 July 2025. Failure to meet this deadline may result in your offer being withdrawn.

UCAS tariff information

Students applying for courses starting in September will be made offers based on the latest UCAS Tariff.

Additional costs

The core textbooks for all modules are available in the Kimberlin Library, and journal articles in your reading lists are also mostly available electronically from your myDMU login.

Some students like to purchase their own text books or print course documents and we suggest allowing approximately £200 per year for this.

All students are required to pay for their DBS check if required for your programme or placement.

In addition students will be required to pay for their travel costs to placements or project locations.

All students are provided the opportunity to participate in DMU Global trips. These trips are subsidised by the University, and the cost and subsidy varies by location.

Learn more about fees and funding information.