Programme Overview

As a healthcare professional, you want to deliver the best outcomes for people living with diabetes while also building your expertise and professional credibility. Our MSc in Diabetes is designed to support you in achieving those goals.

Our MSc Diabetes online programme offers flexible and accessible postgraduate education in diabetes management, allowing you to study around your clinical role and family commitments while gaining an internationally recognised qualification.

Delivered entirely online, our course provides doctors, nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, physician associates, and allied health professionals with advanced skills in precision diagnosis, personalised treatment, pharmacology, and complication management. Whether you work in a high-resource or low-resource setting, you will benefit from low-bandwidth access options and inclusive support, we offer support for students with specific learning difficulties. For more information, please contact our team.

Why choose Learna’s MSc Diabetes course?
Our MSc in Diabetes gives practising healthcare professionals a structured, practical route through modern diabetes care. You progress from diagnosis and lifestyle interventions to pharmacology, technology, and complications, before moving on to research and your own project. Each stage develops your expertise and confidence so you can manage the full spectrum of diabetes care.

You also gain research skills that connect directly to your work. The course concludes with a project that lets you apply your learning in practice and create work with the potential to publish or implement in your service.

Benefits for your career and practice
When you complete our Masters in Diabetes online, you gain a skillset that helps you manage complex cases and improve outcomes for people with diabetes. The qualification supports career progression into leadership, education, and research roles.

Our course is built for busy professionals. You study flexibly with asynchronous sessions that fit around shift work and family life. We use varied and practical assessments, including reflective journals, case-based work, group projects, and MCQs, so you apply your learning directly to practice rather than relying only on traditional exams.

You will also join a global learning community. Our MSc Diabetes online attracts students from across the world, giving you opportunities to share insights on local challenges, learn best practices from diverse healthcare systems, and build international networks.

Our teaching team is made up of practising diabetes specialists who bring real-world expertise to every module.

What makes Learna’s MSc in Diabetes different?
Validated by a reputable university and updated for 2024/25 to include precision medicine, cardio-renal therapies, and continuous glucose monitoring.
Delivered 100% online with low-bandwidth options, designed for clinicians balancing demanding work and family life.
Taught by practising diabetes specialists who bring current, real-world insight to every module.
Connects you with an international community of healthcare professionals for knowledge sharing and networking.
Covers prevention, diagnosis, lifestyle change, pharmacology, acute and chronic complications, and gestational and secondary diabetes.
Each module builds your knowledge step by step, giving you a structured route through the key areas of diabetes care.
Take the next step
You want to provide the best possible care for people with diabetes and progress in your career. Our course gives you the tools, confidence, and recognised qualification to do both.

Accredited for CPD by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK

Entry Requirements

Since our courses are conducted entirely online, they are accessible to both UK and international registered healthcare professionals.

Applicants will typically hold a first degree or equivalent (including international qualifications) in a relevant professional healthcare field, such as a medical or nursing degree.

Registered healthcare professionals without these recognised qualifications will be considered on an individual basis and a wide range of prior experience may be taken into account. In some cases, applicants may be asked to submit a piece of work for assessment in order to confirm that they are able to work comfortably at postgraduate level, and demonstrate the requisite clinical and professional knowledge.

Documents Required

A copy of your updated CV including your address and date of birth.
A copy of your undergraduate degree certificate.
The name and email address of someone who is able to provide a reference, this can be a work colleague, employer or former tutor.
A detailed personal statement explaining why you would like to undertake the course.
A copy of your proof of English competency (see below).
English Language Requirements Proficiency in the English language is also essential to completing our courses. If English is NOT your first language, we ask for proof of competency during the application process. We are able to accept an IELTS overall score of 6.0 (with a minimum of 5.5 for each band) or an equivalent qualification.

If you do not meet these requirements, please don’t worry. The University of South Wales run a number of English Language Programmes at the Centre for International English to prepare you for your academic studies. You can also contact our admissions team on admissions@diploma-msc.com for more information on the qualifications we accept.

Should you have already successfully completed the 1 year Postgraduate Diploma and wish to convert to the MSc and complete only the second year of the programme this is possible. Please contact our admissions department admissions@diploma-msc.com to find out more.

Who is this course for?

Applicants to our master's in diabetes will typically be registered healthcare professionals who have a day to day exposure to people with diabetes. They may be part of a team which delivers care, a leader of that team, or an individual who treats people with diabetes. The online master's in diabetes is for Doctors General Practitioners, Practice Nurses, Diabetes Specialist Nurses, Podiatrists, Pharmacists, Dieticians and Pharmaceutical Representatives.