Learning Disabilities Nursing

Course facts

Award

BSc (Hons)

Route

Undergraduate degree

Length

3 years

Study modes

full-time

Campus

Birmingham

Where

West Midlands, England

Regulator

NMC — approved

Everything above is taken from the published record for this programme. Rows that are absent are absent from the source data, not omitted for brevity.

Entry requirements

Outcomes

Where the national surveys publish figures for this course, they appear here. Small cohorts are routinely suppressed in the official releases, which is why a tile can read "not published" for a course that is running perfectly well.

Outcome figures are worth less on this kind of course than on most. Pre-registration programmes feed a regulated profession with a national pay scale, so a graduate from any approved course starts on the same band as a graduate from any other. Earnings differences between providers mostly reflect where graduates end up living and whether they take NHS or private work, not the quality of the teaching. As a reference point, a newly qualified learning disability nurse in England starts on NHS band 5, which begins at £32,073 in 2026/27. See the full pay picture.

Paying for it

Full-time pre-registration study in England is normally funded through a tuition fee loan and a maintenance loan from the student finance body for the nation you study in, topped up by whatever health-specific support that nation runs. Nursing students are treated more generously than most because placements make part-time work hard to sustain.

The dataset does not carry a Learning Support Fund flag for this individual course, but learning disability nurse is recorded as an eligible subject and the fund covers pre-registration courses in England. Confirm your own eligibility with NHS BSA before you count on it. Learning Disability Nurse is also on the specialist subject list, which attracts an additional payment on top of the standard grant.

• NHS Learning Support Fund — The NHS Learning Support Fund (LSF) is the main NHS-funded grant scheme for eligible pre-registration nursing students in England, paid on top of the standard Student Finance England tuition fee and maintenance loans. All four fields of nursing (adult, mental health, learning disability and children's) qualify for the non-repayable £5,000-a-year Training Grant, while mental health and learning disability nursing students also qualify for an additional £1,000-a-year Specialist Subject Payment restricted to a fixed list of courses. Students who continue to receive a wage or salary while training — including nursing associate apprentices and Registered Nurse Degree Apprentices — are not eligible, since LSF is designed to supplement, not duplicate, employer-paid training.

All funding and bursaries · rules change every academic year, so check the current terms before you apply.

How this course compares

There are 2 other approved learning disability nurse courses in the UK, 2 of them in England, and 1 within West Midlands. Because every one of them leads to the same registration, the differences that actually matter are practical: how long the course runs, whether the award is a bachelor's or a master's, where the placements are and what the university asks for at entry.