Your postgraduate Clinical Oncology offer-holder hub
Congratulations on your offer to study Clinical Oncology at the University of Birmingham! This is your dedicated subject hub where you will find important information about your course before you start!
Why study Clinical Oncology at Birmingham?
- Major centre - Birmingham is a major centre for cancer treatment, both adult and paediatric. It is also home to the West Midlands Genomic Medicine Centre, part of the 100,000 genomes project, led from University Hospital Birmingham.
- Staff expertise - Draws on expertise from staff within the Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences and clinical staff from Birmingham Hospitals plus invited speakers from across the country.
- Clinical observership status - Will provide overseas full time students with a unique opportunity to gain clinical observership status and log your hours observing in a UK based hospital.
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Don't forget to accept your offer and pay your deposit
We are so excited to welcome you onto this programme and for you to start your studies at Birmingham.
If you're an international student, you are required to pay a non-refundable tuition fee deposit of £3,000. Your deposit not only secures your place but also marks the beginning of a life enhancing experience with us.
The deposit payment will be deducted from the tuition fee at registration. You will be required to pay this deposit before your offer can progress and you can register with us.
You can follow the link in your applicant portal to pay this deposit.
Clinical Trials Unit
Clinical Trials UnitThe Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) has a long and established track record of offering the scientific, technical and computing expertise needed to support clinical trial research from conception to completion. Aiming to allow you to understand the research process, MSc Clinical Oncology draws on examples from the Clinical Trials Unit, one of the largest trial units in the country.
Birmingham: A Top Choice for Graduate Employability
We’re proud to be the UK university most targeted by the country’s leading graduate employers (The Graduate Market in 2025 High Fliers report).
Our full time programme has helped many students and professionals to advance their career through solid training, incentive to publish research and the support of our scientific network.
What do our MSc Clinical Oncology graduates do?
Graduates are landing great roles in a fast-growing field. They're working at top places like The Royal Marsden, UHCW NHS Trust, University Hospitals Southampton, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, King Saud Medical City, and big pharma companies like Roche and Bristol Myers Squibb.
Graduates are securing roles like Assistant Clinical Oncologist, Clinical Trial Manager, and Senior Clinical Scientist. Their career paths show just how flexible and relevant the skills from the MSc really are.
The programme also opens doors to help shape the future of cancer care—whether that’s in hospitals, research, start-ups, or the pharmaceutical world.
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Lamia Samrin-Balch - Masters in Clinical Oncology student / Lead Pharmacist
"The taught clinical content is fantastic. Engaging, relevant and varied. This programme at University of Birmingham is well structured and contained everything I was looking to learn clinically."
