BSc Medical Imaging (Diagnostic Radiography) - 2025 entry

Do I need work experience?

While work experience is not a mandatory entry requirement for our programme, you are encouraged to undertake work experience in a Radiography department to gain an insight in to your desired profession.

Will there be an interview?

If successful at the application stage, you will be invited to an interview during January to March, where you’ll undergo a small multiple mini interview (MMI), which consists of a series of short, structured interview stations used to assess your suitability for the programme. 

During the interview day, we will be assessing your personal qualities, such as your communication skills, empathy, insight in to your own strengths and weaknesses, motivation to study radiography, etc.

What happens next?

All successful applicants after interview will be required to complete a health questionnaire and those accepting an offer will be screened by our Occupational Health Department. 

You may be required to attend a medical examination as part of the admissions process. You will be required to have up to date vaccination records for relevant innoculations in line with University requirements and those of your placement providers.

We require all radiography students to be immunised against certain infectious diseases to meet health and safety standards required to work with patients. We will require students to provide evidence of two MMR jabs, and in addition undergo tests to determine their Hepatitis B surface antigen, TB and HIV status.

Enrolled radiography students will be unable to undertake their studies without evidence of completion of the vaccination process.

Please see the Medical Imaging Admissions Policy 2025 (PDF)‌ for full details on our Medical Imaging admissions selection process.  

As you may be working with vulnerable people in a variety of clinical settings throughout the degree programme, all offers are conditional upon a Criminal Conviction Self Declaration and an enhanced disclosure check via the Disclosure & Barring Service (formerly the Criminal Records Bureau). We will review all significant reports of convictions, cautions and verbal warnings and decide on a candidate’s suitability to enter the programme.

International students

International students should check details of our English language requirements.

If your academic qualifications or English language skills do not meet our entry requirements our INTO University of Exeter centre offers a range of courses to help you reach the required language and academic standards.

International Foundation programmes

Preparation for entry to Year 1 of an undergraduate degree:

Foundation programme for Biomedical, Life and Environmental Sciences.

Further information

Please read the important information about our Typical offer.

For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other types of qualification, please see the Applying section.

Research-led teaching

We believe every student benefits from being part of a research-led culture and being taught by experts – you will discuss the very latest ideas in seminars and tutorials and become actively involved in research yourself. Research plays an important part in developing patient care and radiography as a whole for the future. You will be taught by staff who are at the cutting edge of their research areas which ensures you receive the most up-to-date knowledge. During your third year you will undertake a research project in which you will investigate a particular aspect of radiography in detail and may have the opportunity to work alongside research staff on current clinical projects.

Assessment

You will be assessed by a combination of continuous assessment (both academic and clinical) and exams. The ratio of continuous assessment to exams is approximately 5:4. You will have to pass the assessments in your first year to proceed to the second year but they do not count towards your degree classification. The assessments in the second and third year will each contribute to your final degree classification.

Clinical Placements

The clinical placements are within Radiology Departments in one of our 8 placement hospitals: Barnstaple, Plymouth, Dorchester, Exeter, Taunton, Torbay, Truro and Yeovil. You will spend time at a different placement site each year in order to ensure you get a wide range of clinical experience whilst exploring all that the South West has to offer; be prepared that at least once in the three years it is likely that you will be allocated to a placement site which will require you to move to onsite accommodation. The cost of this accommodation can be reimbursed, dependent on your personal circumstances. In addition this process can take a few weeks, so will need to be considered when budgeting for this course.

During your first placement, you will be working for four and a half days a week, between the hours of 9am and 5pm. In the second and third years you will undertake some weekend and out-of-hours duties. You will always be supervised by a qualified member of staff.

The placements last for four months each and the first year placement will end in mid-August, so the holiday times for this degree do not fall in line with other university courses.

These placement sites will be allocated at least a term in advance of the placement occurring, with the majority of students being given one of their top three preferred choices. Please note you will not be able to return to a placement site that you have previously been to.

20 years of Medical Imaging excellence

Medical Imaging at the University of Exeter is celebrating 20 years of teaching and research excellence, training much-needed radiographers for the NHS and beyond.

Since the programme was launched in 2004 to help address a national shortage of radiographers, Medical Imaging has trained more than 1,000 radiographers, with active student placements in ten NHS trusts across Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset.

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Optional modules outside of this course

Each year, if you have optional modules available, you can take up to 30 credits in a subject outside of your course. This can increase your employability and widen your intellectual horizons.

Proficiency in a second subject

If you complete 60 credits of modules in one of the subjects below, you may have the words 'with proficiency in [e.g. Social Data Science]' added to your degree title when you graduate.

• A Foreign Language
• Data Science
• Entrepreneurship
• Innovation
• Law (Penryn Campus only)
• Leadership
• Management
• Social Data Science

Find out more about proficiency options

In addition to the assessed academic and personal skills integrated within the programme, there is a schedule of additional activities designed to enhance the employability of our graduates. 88% of our Medical Imaging students are in or due to start employment or further study fifteen months after graduation.*

Further information on Diagnostic Radiography can be found at:

• Radiography careers
• Society of Radiographers
• NHS careers 

*based on full-time, first degree, UK domiciled graduates, HESA Graduate Outcomes survey 2018/19