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Diagnostic Radiography BSc(Hons)
Start Dates
21 September 2026
Duration
3 years full-time
UCAS Tariff
128-120 points
Overview
Why choose Huddersfield for this course?
- Gain confidence using our state-of-the-art skills labs and immersive simulation facilities on our National Health Innovation Campus.
- You’ll learn from experienced health professionals and service users whose real-world insights bring teaching to life.
- Build communication, leadership and teamwork skills through our Health and Wellbeing Academy’s community-focused work experience opportunities.
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Places available
Entry to this course is competitive due to a limited number of places. For the 2026-27 academic year, we expect to have approximately 30 places available.
**This course is now closed to new applications for September 2026.**
Do you want to work play a key role in hospital medical teams? Trained to use the latest imaging technology, Diagnostic Radiographers provide crucial healthcare services to millions of people. A dynamic Allied Health Profession, who rapidly respond to changing technological, health and patient population needs, to provide person-centred support and care during screening, diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of illnesses or injuries. With the continuing expansion of imaging provision, diagnostic radiographers are a profession in high demand.
Radiographers in the UK work under regulation of the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) and after successfully completing this course you would be eligible to apply to join the HCPC register and work as a Diagnostic Radiographer.
Why study Diagnostic Radiography BSc(Hons)
The team of experienced radiographers, and other staff across our National Health Innovation Campus, will support you to reach the high-level of professional aptitude modern interdisciplinary clinical settings require. The campus’ new Emily Siddon building’s imaging and simulator suites will enable you to develop the technical expertise to operate diagnostic systems safely. Throughout your study, your vital communication, care, and teamworking skills will benefit from regular encounters with service users, carers, in-practice professionals, and other health students.
Our excellent links with local healthcare providers (private and NHS) - including a co-located community diagnostic centre – provides placement opportunities for you to practically reinforce what you learn.
Also, our Public Partnership Group (PPG) and Health and Wellbeing Academy work together to support your development as a compassionate, person-centred professional. You’ll engage with service users and carers through lectures, discussions, and simulations. Their lived experiences will help to build your communication skills, empathy, and the critical thinking needed to deliver outstanding care across diverse communities. While our Health and Wellbeing Academy offers hands-on placement opportunities through initiatives like Get Set Goal and Restart a Heart. These experiences will help you build skills in communication, public health, leadership, and teamwork while making a real impact in the community.
Not quite ready to start Diagnostic Radiography BSc(Hons)? Successful completion of our Health Foundation Pathway leading to a BSc(Hons) Degree will equip you with the foundation knowledge to study as a diagnostic radiographer.
Entry Requirements
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Course Details
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Placements
Nothing compares to the excitement, fast pace, and critical decision-making of actually doing the job. That’s why clinical placements are a vital part of your learning and a compulsory element of the course, giving you the opportunity to gain a broad range of experience and expertise.
We’ve worked closely with our placement partners to create a high-quality, innovative placement programme designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge needed to meet the evolving demands of healthcare as a future diagnostic radiographer.
Over the three years of study, you’ll complete at least 1,000 hours of clinical placements. These could take place at sites across West Yorkshire within NHS Trusts providing both primary and secondary care. You may also gain experience in private hospitals, charities, university research settings.
Travelling to Placement
You will undertake placements as part of your course, which may take place across a wide geographical area. Wherever possible, we will not expect students to travel for longer than two hours each way from the University campus. However, if a student chooses to live outside the West Yorkshire region, it may not be possible to apply the two-hour travel time limit.
Please note, you may need to travel to different locations for your placements and may be required to work shifts and a 7-day pattern whilst on placement.
Placement providers for this course require students to have received a number of vaccinations, including hepatitis B and TB, unless medically exempt, and to provide evidence of these. As a student on a course with a clinical or healthcare placement, we strongly recommend that you complete any course of vaccinations required under current guidelines for your future profession. We strongly advise that you get testing for TB and if required a TB vaccination prior to starting the course via your GP. Failure to comply with the placement providers vaccination requirements may result in your inability to
Your Career
As a registered diagnostic radiographer, you can apply to work within the NHS and private practice. UK registration is recognised as enabling you to work in this profession overseas.
Our graduates are envisioned to go on to work as diagnostic radiographers in the NHS hospitals, community health trusts and the private sector.
After further training you could specialise in cross-sectional imaging (CT, MRI or PET), ultrasound as a sonographer, nuclear medicine and focused fluoroscopic procedures such as cardiac angiography.
Fees and Finance
This information is for Home students applying to study at the University of Huddersfield in the academic year 2026/27.
Please note that tuition fees for subsequent years may rise in line with inflation (RPI-X) and/or Government policy.
From January 2027 the UK government is launching a new student funding system for people starting university education. Read more about the Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE).
For detailed information please visit https://www.hud.ac.uk/study/fees/
This information is for international students applying to study at the University of Huddersfield in the academic year 2026/27.
Please note that tuition fees for subsequent years may rise in line with inflation (RPI-X) and/or Government policy.
For detailed information please visit https://www.hud.ac.uk/international/fees-and-funding/
Placement Funding:
Throughout your studies placements may incur additional costs for accommodation, parking and travel. You may be able to claim costs back through the Learning Support Fund (LSF).
We strongly encourage you to read the information available on the NHS Learning Support Fund Website to understand your eligibility and how the LSF works: https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/nhs-learning-support-fund-lsf
Uniform:
Students receive an initial set of uniforms required for placement. After these have been issued, any additional uniforms may incur a cost. In 2025/26, one extra set costs approximately £30
Students studying eligible courses may receive a non-replayable grant of at least £5,000 per year.
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When you enrol as a student of the University, your study and time with us will be governed by our terms and conditions, Handbook of Regulations and associated policies. It is important that you familiarise yourself with these as you will be asked to agree to them when you join us as a student. You will find a guide to the key terms here, along with the Student Protection Plan.
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If we propose to make a major change to a course that you are holding an offer for, then we will tell you as soon as possible so that you can decide whether to withdraw your application prior to enrolment. We may occasionally have to withdraw a course you have applied for or combine your programme with another programme if we consider this reasonably necessary to ensure a good student experience, for example if there are not enough applicants. Where this is the case we will notify you as soon as reasonably possible and if you are unhappy with the change we will discuss with you other suitable courses we can transfer your application to. If you do not wish to transfer to another course with us, you may cancel your application and we will refund you any deposits or fees you have paid to us.
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Changes to option modules
Where your course allows you to choose modules from a range of options, we will review these each year and change them to reflect the expertise of our staff, current trends in research and as a result of student feedback or demand for certain modules. We will always ensure that you have an equivalent range of options to that advertised for the course. We will let you know in good time the options available for you to choose for the following year.
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We will only make major changes to non-optional modules on a course if it is necessary for us to do so and provided such changes are reasonable. A major change is a change that substantially changes the outcomes, or a significant part of your course, such as the nature of the award or a substantial change to module content, teaching days (part time provision), type of delivery or assessment of the core curriculum. For example, it may be necessary to make a major change to reflect changes in the law or the requirements of the University’s regulators or a commissioning or accrediting body. We may also make changes to improve the course in response to student, examiners’ or other course evaluators’ feedback or to ensure you are being taught current best practice. Major changes may also be necessary because of circumstances outside our reasonable control, such as a key member of staff being unable to teach due to illness, where they have a particular specialism that can’t be adequately covered by other members of staff; or due to pandemics, other disasters (such as fire, flood or war) or changes made by the government.
Major changes would usually be made with effect from the next academic year, but may happen sooner in an emergency. We will notify you as soon as possible should we need to make a major change and will consult with affected groups of students and any changes would only be made in accordance with our regulations. If you reasonably believe that the proposed change will cause you detriment or hardship we will, if appropriate, work with you to try to reduce the adverse effect on you or find an appropriate solution. Where an appropriate solution cannot be found and you let us know before the change takes effect you can cancel your registration and withdraw from the University without liability to the University for any additional tuition fees. We will provide reasonable support to assist you with transferring to another university if you wish to do so and you may be eligible for an exit award depending on how far through your course you are.
In exceptional circumstances, we may, for reasons outside of our control, be forced to discontinue or suspend your course. Where this is the case, a formal exit strategy will be followed in accordance with the student protection plan.
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