Health and Social Care with Foundation Year

About this course

Health and Social Care is a field concerned with how people access support, maintain wellbeing, and navigate the services designed to help them at every stage of life. It draws on sociology, psychology, public health, and social policy to examine how individuals experience care, how institutions deliver it, and how structural factors such as poverty, inequality, and geography shape health outcomes across different communities. Studying this subject gives you both an analytical framework for understanding care systems and a practical grounding in how those systems can be improved. This programme at Birkbeck College is offered with a foundation year, giving you an additional year of structured academic preparation before you move into the main degree. This is particularly valuable if you are returning to education, coming from a non-traditional background, or simply want to build confiden

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 50% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 15% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 5% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 10% of graduatescards →
• 30 / 100Managers, directors and senior officials · 10% of graduatescards →
• 18 / 100Teaching Professionals · 10% of graduatescards →

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