University of Edinburgh

The School offers undergraduate, postgraduate, and executive education programmes in business and management and provides a platform for research, discussion, and debate on a wide range of business issues.

The Centre for Open Learning is part of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. The centre champions pathways to education by connecting with colleagues and students across Edinburgh and beyond.

The Edinburgh College of Art is a leading international art college within the University of Edinburgh. They offer a creative and supportive environment in which to study one of 80 ground-breaking programmes, or take forward research within a global institution.

Formally established in 1726, Edinburgh Medical School is one of two schools at the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine , the other being the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies.

Moray House School of Education and Sport has been making a major contribution and impact to the fields of education and sport both in Scotland and worldwide for almost 200 years. They are one of the leading centres for research, impact and teaching in Education and Sport both locally and globally.

The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies is a one-of-a-kind centre of excellence in clinical activity, teaching and research. They represent the largest concentration of animal science related expertise in Europe, impacting local, regional, national and international communities.

The School of Biological Sciences is at the leading edge in teaching, research and innovation. Independent rankings such as the Times Higher Education consistently place the school amongst the top 25 universities in the world for biological sciences.

The School of Chemistry offers a globally connected teaching community, enriched by incoming students from around the world.

The School of Divinity is one of the largest centres for the teaching and research of theology and religious studies in the UK. The School is also ranked in the world’s top 20 universities for Theology, Divinity and Religious Studies (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023).

The School of Economics offers excellent teaching and have an outstanding reputation in undergraduate and postgraduate education through their range of world class undergraduate, MSc and PhD programmes.

The School of Engineering is at the forefront in using academic underpinning research to tackle real-world problems. The School is one of the most industrially-engaged within the University, with graduates providing a higher-than-average economic impact when they enter the workplace.

The School of Geosciences is one of the largest and most successful interdisciplinary groupings of geographers and geoscientists in the UK, with a community of staff, students and researchers passionately committed to understanding the impact of climate on the Earth’s systems, the environment and ecosystems.

The School of Health in Social Science seeks to foster an environment of inclusivity that recognises the dignity and value of everyone. We seek to strengthen our common humanity by respecting our multiplicity of identities.

The School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh is one of the great world centres for the study of the human past. In the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, the School’s subjects were in the top five in the UK for breadth and quality of research (THE Research Power rank).

The School of Informatics at Edinburgh has the leading research position in the UK and is recognised internationally for excellence of its research outputs, education and knowledge exchange.

For more than 300 years, Edinburgh Law School has been rooted in the open and interdisciplinary traditions of Scots law. We are a fully comprehensive law school that effects civic change both locally and globally.

The School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) offers one of the widest range of languages of any UK university, from Chinese to Scottish Gaelic. They teach all six official languages of the United Nations, and eight of the languages of the European Union.

The School of Mathematics is one of the world’s leading mathematical sciences departments, home to internationally excellent researchers and to an innovative educational environment for both undergraduates and postgraduates.

The School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh is home to a scholarly community producing world-leading research across the fields of philosophy, psychology, linguistics, and English language.

The current School of Physics & Astronomy was formed in 1993 by the merger of the Department of Physics (called the Department of Natural Philosophy until the late 1960s) and the Department of Astronomy. The School has about 260 members of staff, of whom around 80 are academic teaching staff.

The School of Social and Political Science is one of the leading schools of social science in the UK. They provide an outstanding educational environment for their students and support the highest-quality research, tackling some of the world’s greatest challenges.