Overview

The 2-year Osteopathy programme of Metropolia University of Applied Sciences aims to create a fulfilling path for osteopaths to expand, and develop their own synthesis of the contemporary osteopathic topics. This will contribute to developing a stronger professional identity, and raise awareness of osteopathic healthcare within society.

This Master’s Degree Programme in osteopathy is the first of a kind in the Nordic countries. Two schools – Skandinaviska Osteopathögskolan from Gothenburg, Sweden and Metropolia University of Applied Sciences from Helsinki, Finland – have joined their forces in order to create a special programme designed for osteopaths, who wish to enhance their professional skills, and collaborate with other healthcare practitioners in order to raise the quality and awareness for osteopathic care.

What Will You Study?

At a time when person-centred health care is a central tenet of modern day health management, it is important that the osteopathic profession takes its place in contributing in an active and positive manner. The master's programme is designed to enable, support and engage osteopaths in navigating and applying this important movement within health care. This programme recognises and addresses the key competences required by the contemporary osteopath who wants to work within an integrative health care system.

This Master’s Degree Programme in Osteopathy collaborates with the Master’s Degree Programme in Health Business Management. This multidisciplinary approach is a core aspect of the programme. This collaboration encourages and supports communication between healthcare professionals, therefore, raising awareness of osteopathic practice across healthcare in general.

The collaboration is further supported by embedding an evidence informed practice approach throughout the programme. The rationale here is that there is a necessity for the osteopathic profession to reflect upon its theoretical models, and integrate the most recent and relevant research.

Programme Structure

The programme will focus on the following:

Clinical aspect: exploring explanations for osteopathic treatment effects within an evidence informed and critical thinking perspective, and advanced practitioner skills

Research aspect: building a constructive forum for open inquiry, discussion and development through expanding knowledge on research methods and skills and creating a master’s thesis

Service and management aspect: developing an integrated, safe, person-centred approach to osteopathic service as a whole including skills in leadership, management and service design

Key information

Duration

Part-time
- 18 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-08-20 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-07-31 00:00:00
Starting 2027-01-07 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-09-30 00:00:00

Language

English

Credits

90 ECTS

Delivered

Online

Campus Location

Helsinki, Finland

Disciplines

Public Health Medicine Health Sciences

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

The student selection is conditional until the certificates used as a basis for student selection have been checked.
Metropolia may withdraw the admission if an applicant is not eligible to apply, has given false information or does not deliver all the required documents by the deadline.
Persons who have completed an applicable Bachelor’s degree in a university of applied sciences or other applicable degree in an institution of higher education, or ones who are deemed by the university of applied sciences to have sufficient knowledge and skills for the studies may be eligible for programmes leading to a Master’s degree
In addition to the above mentioned basic education, admission to programmes leading to a Master's degree in a university of applied sciences is subject to a minimum of two years' work experience in the field concerned after completing the educational qualification granting eligibility

Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

International Applies to you

Applies to you

Non-residents

12500 EUR / year

≈ 12500 EUR / year
EU/EEA Applies to you

Applies to you

EU/EEA Nationals

Free

Additional Details

The tuition fees concern students who are not citizens of EU/EEA countries.

Funding

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