Nursing

Nursing is a challenging and rewarding profession that offers a wide range of roles in caring for people and promoting health.

Stirling is a superb place to study for your Nursing degree and learn skills that are valued worldwide. We offer courses in Adult Nursing (caring for adults aged over 18) and Mental Health Nursing.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) approves all our Nursing courses, and we’re ranked top 5 in Scotland for Nursing (Complete University Guide 2023 and The Guardian University Guide 2023).

Our Nursing degrees are taught by world-leading academics with strong and established research records, expertise in nursing practice and a wealth of world-class publications. You will leave us as a confident practitioner, fully equipped to register with the NMC and join a healthcare team upon graduation. Students from our courses have repeatedly won Student Nursing Times Awards.

Nursing courses

Courses labelled  are available for online study only.

Undergraduate courses
Course	Start date
BSc Professional Practice	September 2023, January 2024
BSc (Hons) Nursing – Adult	September 2023
BSc (Hons) Nursing - Mental Health	September 2023
BSc Nursing - Adult	September 2023
BSc Nursing - Mental Health	September 2023

Postgraduate courses
Course	Start date
Clinical Doctorates	September 2023, September 2024
MSc Advancing Practice	September 2023, January 2024, September 2024
MSc Early Years Practice Health Visiting	September 2023, September 2024

CPD and short courses
Course	Start date
Advanced Clinical Assessment and Examination (Advancing Practice)	September 2023, April 2024
Assessing and Managing Symptoms in Palliative Care	September 2023
Contemporary Leadership in Early Years Practice	April 2024
Diagnosis and Decision Making in Advanced Practice	September 2023
Essentials of Mental Health Assessment – a multi-professional approach	January 2024
Evidence Based Practice	January 2024
Exploring the Theory and Practice of Psychological Trauma	September 2023
GIRFEC: A Multi-Agency Approach to Practice	September 2023
Health and Wellbeing of People with Dementia	September 2023
Health Visiting in Practice Conversion	April 2024
Improving quality through work-based learning	September 2023
Living with Long Term Conditions: Care and Management	January 2024
Mental Health, Everyone’s Business	January 2024
Prescribing for Healthcare Professionals	October 2023, February 2024
Prescribing for Healthcare Professionals (Advancing Practice)	October 2023, February 2024
The Principles and Practice of Child and Family Health and Wellbeing	September 2023
Understanding and Assessing Pain	January 2024

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Scholarships

We offer a variety of scholarship and funding options to help you finance your studies at the University of Stirling.

Undergraduate scholarships

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Postgraduate scholarships

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Our Nursing courses are approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

Graduate careers in Nursing

Our Nursing courses will prepare you for a modern profession, and provide the best possible patient care in a range of settings. Some of our nursing graduates focus on practice - consolidating their learning by working in roles such as a staff nurse in a hospital, community setting or care home - while others progress to postgraduate studies. These experiences can develop a career pathway, leading to specialised areas such as palliative care or advanced nurse practitioner roles.

Nursing graduates mostly find roles within the NHS, while others have found employment in other areas of the public sector-as well as with private healthcare providers and the voluntary sector.

Partnerships and industry

We work with NHS Forth Valley to ensure that our courses remain clinically excellent and that you’ll receive the best possible practical training.

The Forth Valley University College NHS Partnership is an ambitious collaboration between the University of Stirling, Forth Valley College and NHS Forth Valley, which aims to improve patient care and treatment for communities across the region for years to come.

Nursing research

In the Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport we have a research-intensive environment responsible for pioneering research in a number of important fields such as nursing, public health, primary care and mental health. Our research is world-leading and has been recognised internationally for making a positive and demonstrable impact on the health and wellbeing of individuals and society. In REF 2021, 100% of our research environment, 80% of our research impact and 83% of our overall research in Allied Health Professions and Nursing was classed as world leading or internationally excellent.