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University degree

Operating Department Practitioner

Whitefield Academy Trust
Qualification
Degree
Length
-
UK fees / yr
£9,535
Study
part-time
Worth knowing: about 50% of students don't make it past first year here - ask the uni what support they offer.
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Here's the honest picture on this course - what you'd study, whether you'd likely get in, what it pays, and where it leads. Everything's real data.
About this course

If you are passionate about delivering high-quality care to surgical patients within the operating room and associated care settings, our Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) degree is for you.

Could you get in?
The grades students arrived with
No past-entry data for this course.
How they qualified
80% got in with other higher education. The rest came in a mix of ways:
other higher education80%
another degree15%
A-levels10%
Could I get in? Try your grades
120 UCAS pts
Pay & prospects
95%
In work or further study after
50%
Continue past first year
75%
Student satisfaction
What graduates earn over time
£35,000
3 years on
£34,500
5 years on
What graduates actually go on to do % of leavers
Process, plant and machine operatives5%
Nursing ProfessionalsHighly skilled90%
Welfare and housing associate professionalsHighly skilled5%
What students say National Student Survey
75%
of students are satisfied with the course overall
Teaching84%
Assessment & feedback79%
Academic support72%
Well organised67%
Learning resources78%
Student community79%
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Where this degree can lead
Like the look of it?
When you're ready, the full entry requirements and application are on Whitefield Academy Trust's own site.
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Careermash · real course data from HESA / Discover Uni, in plain English.

Career data: role, pay and progression profiles built for Careermash's careers engine; AI-impact estimates from Anthropic's observed AI-usage telemetry and OpenAI's AI Jobs Transition Framework. Course data: HESA / Discover Uni, including Graduate Outcomes, LEO and the National Student Survey. Apprenticeships: IfATE-published standards, approved only.

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