BSc (Hons) Midwifery

1 Years On Campus Bachelors Program

University of East Anglia

Program Overview

The role of the midwife is to provide support and care to women and their partners during pregnancy, birth, and the early weeks of parenthood. As a midwife you will be the lead professional when care is uncomplicated but you will also be a core member of the multidisciplinary team. This course provides a robust approach to learning due to its close links to developing the application of theory and practice and assimilating your existing experience, knowledge and skills into practicing midwifery. The programme we offer provides an integrated set of learning experiences to enable you to meet the health and social needs of women and their families during their pregnancy, birth and early weeks afterwards. As part of our recruitment process, the values of the NHS Constitution will be explored at interview, with successful candidates demonstrating how these are reflected in their own beliefs.

Experiential Learning (Research, Projects, Internships etc.)

On the BSc (Hons) Midwifery at UEA, you don’t just learn midwifery – you actually live a maternity unit’s rhythm from your first year. Teaching is split between hands-on clinical placements in regional NHS trusts and highly realistic simulations in the Edith Cavell Building on the Norwich Research Park, where the School of Health Sciences has built a whole suite of clinical skills and midwifery simulation spaces.

Day to day, that means you’ll be practising assessments, births, and emergency responses in mock delivery rooms and wards, then walking into real antenatal clinics, labour wards and community caseloads with supervisors expecting you to apply what you’ve rehearsed. Final-year students even take part in an “A day in the life of a maternity unit” immersive simulation that follows a full shift with unfolding scenarios, designed by UEA midwifery lecturers to build confidence at the point you’re about to qualify.

All of that practical learning is backed by serious tech: the Edith Cavell Building uses a 360-degree immersive classroom and a multi-camera smots™ recording system so your simulations can be watched live, recorded from different angles and debriefed afterwards, with video exported into the virtual learning environment for reflection.

Here’s what this looks like in concrete terms:

Clinical placements across local NHS trusts and community services – Midwifery students are placed across UEA Health & Social Care Partners, including Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals, James Paget University Hospitals, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn, community health trusts and integrated care boards in Norfolk and Suffolk. This network gives you exposure to antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal and community midwifery in both hospital and community settings across the region.
Edith Cavell Building – purpose-built home for Nursing & Midwifery – Your practical teaching base is the Edith Cavell Building, built specifically for health sciences and located next to Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. It houses “clinical skills education and practice” for the School of Health Sciences, including general skills rooms, debrief rooms and simulation spaces dedicated to midwifery.
Dedicated midwifery simulation environments – Within the Edith Cavell Building there is a Midwifery Simulation Space plus a suite of realistic environments: a domestic living room and bedroom (for home-birth and community scenarios), an operating theatre simulation space, and a six-bed acute ward simulation space. These allow you to rehearse everything from low-risk labour to theatre transfers and complex postnatal care before doing it with real families.
Immersive classroom with 360° video and surround sound – UEA’s immersive classroom, based in the Edith Cavell Building, uses 360-degree video recording and integrated surround sound to turn a standard teaching room into almost any setting you need: a moving ambulance, a busy A&E, or a home-birth environment. It’s used for intensive “incident day” simulations where your clinical reasoning and teamwork are stress-tested in real time.

Progression & Future Opportunities

With your degree from the University of East Anglia (UEA) in BSc (Hons) Midwifery, you’ll have the training and credentials needed for roles like Registered Midwife, Community Midwife Team Leader, Maternity Services Coordinator, or Clinical Practice Educator for Midwives. These opportunities come with national accreditation and strong industry demand, giving you a clear professional path ahead.

Here’s how UEA supports your progression and opportunity:

UEA’s School of Health Sciences reports that 96.4% of its students progress to professional or managerial employment or further study within 15 months of graduation.
The course is approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), meaning once you graduate, you’re eligible to register and work as a midwife across the UK.
UEA has strong partnerships with local NHS trusts and maternity services so that students often move straight into roles through these networks.
Graduate salary statistics show median earnings around £31,000 in the first year, rising to £33,600 by year five for midwifery-related graduates in the UK.
On graduating you’ll be entering a profession vital to healthcare, meaning high job security, national registration and the possibility of rapid role-progression and specialisation.