University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh is a multi-site institution with a central location in Scotland’s vibrant capital city. From Nobel laureates and Olympic champions to space explorers and prime ministers, the University of Edinburgh has been influencing history since it opened the gates to its first students in 1583. They are the home of Britain’s oldest literary awards, the James Tait Black Prizes, and Dolly the sheep, the first animal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell.
It was also at the University of Edinburgh that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was inspired to create his notorious character, Sherlock Holmes, and James Young Simpson pioneered anaesthetics through his discovery of the properties of chloroform. More recently, theoretical physicist and Professor Emeritus Peter Higgs was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his 1964 prediction of the Higgs Boson.
Contextual Offers
- The University of Edinburgh has long been passionately committed to and taken a lead in WP, pioneering many different types of access programmes and best practice, including the Lothians Equal Access Programme for Schools (LEAPS) and Pathways to the Professions in the 1990s, which are now embedded across the sector.
- Alongside their broader initiatives around equity and access for all, they work specifically with the Scottish Funding Council to develop a three year Outline Agreement (refreshed annually) which is their public statement, and includes their commitment to widening access as well as other areas such as employability and research.
- Contextual offers
- 40K
Students from almost 160 countries.
- 370
Diverse single and joint honours degree programmes are offered.
- 15th
In the world and 3rd in the UK (QS World University Rankings 2024)