September 2018
Full time: 12 months
Part time: 15 months
Full-time: £10,500
Part-time: £5,250 per year
Full-time: £15,000
Part-time: £7,500 per year
There is no fixed application deadline. However applications close when the course is full, so we encourage you to apply early.
The demand for specialists in health economics continues to increase. Whether you have a quantitative, sciences’ or economics background, the MSC in Economic Evaluation in Healthcare is designed to help you meet that demand.
From economic evaluation, health economics and quantitative methods to welfare economics and epidemiology, this course will give you the expertise to pursue a rewarding career in health economics.
This course has been designed to meet the demand for health economics’ quantitative and analytical skills for decision-making in the healthcare sector.
The Economic Evaluation in Healthcare MSc helps you:
The Department of Economics hosts both the City Health Economics Centre (CHEC) and the London Health Economics Group (LHEG)
You should have:
Students with a good lower second class in one of the above disciplines might be considered on a case-by-case basis
You must also meet the English language requirement for the programme.
Don’t meet the entry requirements? INTO City, University of London offers a range of academic and English language programmes to help prepare you for study at City, University of London. You’ll learn from experienced teachers in a dedicated international study centre.
These programmes are designed for international students who do not meet the required academic and English language requirements for direct entry. To prepare for this degree course, learn more about the Graduate Diploma in Social Sciences and the Arts.
City works in partnership with Kaplan International College (KIC) London to provide preparatory courses for international students. Pre Masters courses at KIC London offer comprehensive support to students wishing to complete their postgraduate study at City. Progression to this degree is guaranteed if you complete the KIC London Pre-Masters course at the required level.
If English is not your first language you will need the following qualification:
Please note that due to changes in the UKVI's list of SELTs we are no longer able to accept TOEFL as evidence of English language for students who require a CAS as of April 2014.
All applicants that require a Tier 4 visa must meet the minimum Home Office English Language ability requirements before City can issue the Certificate of Acceptance for Study (CAS) that is needed to apply for a Tier 4 visa.
Don’t meet the English language requirements? INTO City, University of London offers English language programmes to help prepare you for study at university. These intensive and flexible courses are designed to improve your English ability for entry to degree courses.
If you are not from the European Economic Area / Switzerland and you are coming to study in the UK, you may need to apply for a visa or entry clearance to come to the UK to study.
The way that you apply may vary depending on the length of your course. There are different rules for:
For more information see our main Visa page.
Applications for 2018 are now open.
Fees in each subsequent year of study (where applicable) will be subject to an annual increase of 2%. We will confirm any change to the annual tuition fee to you in writing prior to you commencing each subsequent year of study (where applicable).
Future Finance offers students loans of between £2,500 and £40,000 to help cover tuition fees and living expenses. All students and courses are considered. All loans are subject to credit checks and approval for further details please visit the City Finance website.
Jameel's Story
Jameel completed the MSc Health Economics and now works at Astellas Pharma Europe as the Director of Health Economics and Outcomes Research . He talks about how his time at City helped him get where he is now and how the field of Health Economics is advancing.
Placements provide you with a unique opportunity to apply the skills you have learned during the MSc and acquire experience in the workplace.
Companies and organisations are invited to meet with you and propose subjects for your dissertation, which will be done during a placement. Organisations and students liaise directly with the approval of the academic supervisor.
Our students secure placements with a wide range of companies, such as:
As a Master’s student at City, you will benefit from state-of-the art student-geared facilities, including a bright new gym and meeting points. Most importantly, you will benefit from City’s central London location.
We offer a free language course for City, University of London students.
The course is taught by research-active academic staff, teaching assistants, and industry speakers and visiting lecturers.
We have also invited speakers to present specialised topics in Health Economics.
Assessments are typically a combination of unseen written examinations (70% for each module) and coursework (30% for each module), but this can vary by module.
About two-thirds of our students secure a placement at a firm. The placement is used to learn about the sector while writing the dissertation.
Pre-sessional activities covering Statistics, Microeconomics, Stata, Excel and Mathematics run in September before the start of term. These are available for all students who secure a place on the MSc Economic Evaluation and Healthcare course. Pre-sessionals are included in your degree fee and are designed to prepare you for the course. We therefore strongly encourage you to make every effort to attend. Dates of the sessions are as follows:
Statistics – date TBC
Mathematics – date TBC
Stata – date TBC
Excel – date TBC
Microeconomics – date TBC
Please note that you are not required to register for the above pre-sessionals, you just need to turn up on the day. Further information, such as the exact times and locations, will be provided in your induction schedule.
The teaching takes place over two terms, from September to June.
Full-time students take 20 weeks of lectures, plus dissertation and examination periods over one year.
Full-time students who pass all the taught modules during the main exam sessions will finish the programme at the end of September, when they submit their dissertation.
Full-time students who successfully complete the taught modules in the August re-sit exam session will submit their dissertation in December.
Part-time students take 20 weeks of lectures, plus dissertation and examination periods spread over one year and three months.
Part-time students complete all modules over the course of four terms, from September to June, before undertaking their dissertation.
Part-time students who successfully pass all the taught modules during the main exam sessions will finish the programme in December, when they submit their dissertation. Part-time students who successfully pass all the taught modules in August submit in March of the following year.
As an Economic Evaluation in Healthcare MSc student at City, you will benefit from invited lectures, modules and seminars from an extensive list of collaborators, from the industry and other institutions including:
Prof. John Appleby (Nuffield Trust)
Anthony Bentley (Mtech Access)
Prof. John Cairns (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Prof. Nancy Devlin (Office of Health Economics and Hon Professor at City)
Prof. Michael Drummond (York University and Hon Prof at City)
Mr. Alastair Fischer (formerly NICE, then OHE)
Prof. Malcolm Law (Epidemiology, Queen Mary University of London)
Dr Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz (Expert in Pharmaeconomics, formerly OHE now Independent Consultant)
Prof. David Parkin (Office of Health Economics, Hon Prof at City)
Dr Juliet Mumby-Croft (Director of Source HEOR)
You will complete 180 credits. This includes modules worth 120 credits (one module worth 30 credits and six modules worth 15 credits). The research project is worth 60 credits.
Each module typically has a weekly two-hour lecture and a one-hour tutorial, but this may vary.
This course is taught on Thursdays and Fridays only. A full-time student can expect to spend all day Thursday and Friday at City, for 10 or 11 weeks in the Autumn term and the Spring term.
Please note: it is not possible to give an exact indication of hours per week, as these can vary from one term to the other, depending on which electives you choose.
You will take Quantitative Methods and Economic Evaluation on Thursdays during the first term and Health Economics and Advanced Economic Evaluation on Thursdays during the second term.
You will take Epidemiology on Fridays during the first term and Welfare Economics and Economic Evaluation Workshops (Modelling) on Fridays during the second term.
Part-time students will take only what is taught on Thursdays during the first year and what is taught on Fridays during the second year.
This MSc prepares you for a wide range of career opportunities in economic consultancies, think-tanks, the pharmaceutical industry, professional associations, governmental bodies and non-governmental organisations. It will also enable you to explore teaching and research positions in academic institutions.
Our MSc Economic Evaluation and Healthcare graduates have gone on to work for companies such as:
The MSc also provides a solid academic foundation for students wishing to pursue doctoral research in economics. Our Master’s graduates have pursued PhDs at UCL, York, City, University of London and Warwick.
Applications for 2018 are now open.
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