About Global Mental Health And Society Msc in The University of Edinburgh

• Do you want to examine how mental health is understood and addressed cross-culturally across the world?
• Are you interested in the social drivers of poor mental health and ways to address these?
• Do you want to play a role in transforming mental health care globally?

Mental health and well-being are crucial global health and social welfare policy concerns with significant resources and research devoted to this area.

This interdisciplinary postgraduate programme offers you opportunities to develop:

• critical perspectives on global mental health policy
• practice and research
• space for creating transformative possibilities
• tools for conceptual and practice innovation

Global mental health is emerging as a hybrid academic discipline with academic training programmes, journals, textbooks and research consortiums - primarily in the UK and the USA, but also in Canada and Europe.

Much of this activity has been situated in psychiatry and public health disciplines - with a growing body of scholarly work from other professional and social science disciplines including medical anthropology, social work, international development, and clinical psychology.

The role of the social sciences in global mental health is crucial to:

• further critical understandings of how conceptions of ‘distress’ and ‘mental health’ are socially, culturally and politically constructed in different contexts
• theorising the intersections between social and economic development and mental health
• developing effective interdisciplinary approaches to addressing the mental health-development interface

Academic qualification equivalents

• The minimum score you should have achieved is 60% or more /GPA of 8 on a 10 point scale in your Bachelor's study.

English language requirements

• IELTS Academic: total 7.0 with at least 6.0 in each component.
• TOEFL-iBT (including Home Edition): total 100 with at least 20 in each component
• PTE Academic: total 70 with at least 59 in each component.

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University of Edinburgh Cost of Attendance

The annual cost of tuition at the University of Edinburgh ranges from £8,800 to $24,600. In the UK, there is also a cost of living. The annual cost of living can increase to £ 16828. Through the chart below, applicants can get a general idea of how much it will cost to attend the college: