61 Master's degrees offered by the university

The Medical and Surgical Nursing course delivered by the University College Cork recognises the need for specialist postgraduate education to assist general nurses in meeting the challenges of increased levels of patient acuity, along with ethical and patient-safety challenges in medical-surgical settings.

The Sports and Exercise Medicine course at University College Cork programme is designed to give clinicians a deeper understanding of sports medicine, sports injuries and exercise medicine. 

The Pharmaceutical Technology and Quality Systems (Online) programme at University College Cork Online is aimed at graduates who currently work within the pharmaceutical industry and wish to fulfil the EU educational requirements for Qualified Person (QP) status. 

This Health and Wellbeing degree course at University College Cork aims to support and challenge participants from a range of professional and academic settings and contexts, including but not limited to the healthcare and biopharmaceutical industry, the wider health sector, social work, education, the voluntary sector, and many more. 

This Health Protection (Online) degree delivered by the University College Cork aims to provide students, from a range of different professional backgrounds, with core knowledge and skills related to the practice of Public Health and Health Protection. This course supplies the knowledge and skills necessary for health protection (infection control) and public health on a global scale.

This Health and Wellbeing (Online) programme from University College Cork is part of our new suite of Health and Wellbeing programmes and on successful completion of the Postgraduate Certificate, you can progress to Postgraduate Diploma and subsequently MSc level.

This Medical Sciences degree course delivered by the University College Cork is a combined research and teaching programme with advanced tuition in skills in health sciences research that is taken full-time over 12 months, or part-time over 24 months.

This two-year distance learning course in Pharmaceutical Technology and Quality Systems at University College Cork is aimed at graduates who currently work within the pharmaceutical industry who wish to fulfil the EU educational requirements for Qualified Person status. 

This Dementia master degree delivered by University College Cork provides healthcare professionals with the skills to expertly care for a person with dementia from diagnosis to end-of-life.

This Clinical Trials (Online) degree delivered by the University College Cork is suitable for those of you wishing to pursue a career in clinical trials in the pharmaceutical, medical device, or academic sectors.

The Public Health degree delivered by the University College Cork is designed to meet the increasing demand for highly trained public health specialists in Ireland and abroad. This highly regarded programme will prepare you to investigate, evaluate and address public health challenges, whatever your professional background

The Engineering in Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical Systems programme from University College Cork is a unique offering of the discipline of Process and Chemical Engineering designed to provide participants with an advanced qualification related to pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical processing. 

The Midwifery degree delivered by the University College Cork is a taught programme for midwives running over two years from the date of first registration. This programme is for registered midwives only. 

This Nursing (Oncology) degree course from University College Cork is offered in a blended learning format (part-online and part-attendance at workshops/tutorials) and is designed to meet the needs of nurses working in oncology settings who wish to undergo a specialist oncology course.

The Health Professions' Education (Online) programme at University College Cork Online is designed for busy healthcare professionals, including those working full time, who want flexible access to learning. UCC has a strong tradition in the education of educators and the Medical Education Unit is specifically dedicated to the development of teachers in the health professions. 

The Clinical Pharmacy (Online) programme from University College Cork Online is designed to maximise contact between student and tutor while allowing distance learning via the internet and through teleconferences/webinars with experienced medical and pharmacy practitioners.

This Radiation Therapy degree at University College Cork is an intensive pre-registration programme for students with a primary degree in a subject other than Radiation Therapy.

This Industrial Pharmaceutical Sciences, Operations and Management master degree delivered by the University College Cork is a unique postgraduate qualification designed to maximise graduate employability in the biopharma and pharma industries.

Health and wellbeing are critical issues in society and at University College Cork we have addressed this with our Health and Society programme. This is an innovative joint programme, led by the Department of Philosophy, the School of Public Health, and the Department of Economics, which examines health and its social and policy determinants from a rich interdisciplinary perspective.

The philosophy underpinning this course values the concept of positive ageing and the unique individual characteristics of the older person. The Nursing - Gerontological Nursing (Online) programme at University College Cork Online seeks to validate this through the development of expert gerontological nursing to meet the complex needs of older people in a variety of care settings.