The Buckingham Medicine courseWhat you actually study, and where you will be
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The Buckingham medicine course at a glance
The UK's independent medical school: privately funded, January-start only, and 4.5 years rather than five. Fees are the headline difference — £41,500 a year for UK students — and the placement estate stretches from Milton Keynes to Cheshire.
How Buckingham teaches medicine
The ratio of students to academic staff, clinical educators and patients "is kept low throughout Phases 1 and 2". Phase 1 uses integrated and interdisciplinary units structured around body systems in a clinical context.
What that means day to day
Year by year at Buckingham
Where you will actually be at Buckingham
Placement geography is the part of a medicine course that changes your life most and appears in prospectuses least. Here is what Buckingham publishes.
- Milton Keynes University Hospital
- St Andrew's Hospital, Northampton
- South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Stoke Mandeville Hospital
- Macclesfield General Hospital (East Cheshire Trust)
- Leighton Hospital (Mid Cheshire Hospitals)
Worth knowing about Buckingham
- Buckingham is an independent, privately funded university — tuition is £41,500 a year for UK students and £47,000 for international students.
- Intakes start in January only.
- The school received GMC accreditation in May 2019.
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Entry requirements, UCAT, personal statement and interview, step by step.
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Read the guide →Where this Buckingham course profile came from
Every course detail on this page was taken from University of Buckingham's own course page, read on 2026-09-11.
Primary source: University of Buckingham — official course information.
Courses are restructured between cycles. Anything here that decides your application — an anatomy offer, a placement city, a compulsory intercalated year — should be confirmed against the official page for your entry year.
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