Health Economics

University of Manchester
Undergraduate MPhil Full-time 12 Months Accounting and financeEconomics

About this course

Our PhD/MPhil Health Economics programme enables you to undertake a research project that will improve understanding of Health Economics.

Our main research themes within health economics apply or develop economic methods to understand

  • incentives and provider performance;

  • equity in healthcare and geographical resource allocation;

  • workforce planning and determinants of labour supply;

  • measurement and valuation of preferences for benefits of healthcare;

  • determinants of variation in healthcare costs and benefits;

  • economic evaluation of complex cross-therapeutic interventions;

  • utilisation of routinely collected data across health and social care to value costs and benefits in economic evaluation;

  • causal analysis of complex interventions, complex needs and less-regulated (mainly diagnostic) services;

  • innovative study design to take account of complexity in intervention design and increase in emphasis on integration of

    health and social care;

    The research covers a number of clinical areas, including for example, ageing, mental health, precision medicine and patient safety.

  • Study Options

    This course is available in 4 study options:

    Full-time Shown above

    Duration: 12 Months

    Qualification: MPhil

    Location: Manchester

    Part-time

    Duration: 24 Months

    Qualification: MPhil

    Location: Manchester

    Full-time Shown above

    Duration: 36 Months

    Qualification: PhD

    Location: Manchester

    Part-time

    Duration: 72 Months

    Qualification: PhD

    Location: Manchester

    Career Prospects

    Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

    2435 Professional/Chartered company secretaries
    2431 Management consultants and business analysts
    4124 Finance officers
    2433 Actuaries, economists and statisticians
    3531 Brokers
    1131 Financial managers and directors

    Course Details

    Qualification
    Master of Philosophy - MPhil
    Study Mode
    Full-time
    Duration
    12 Months
    Start Date
    2025
    Academic Year
    2025
    Campus / Location
    Manchester
    Scheme
    Undergraduate
    Subjects
    Accounting and finance, Economics