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The University of Edinburgh
http://www.ed.ac.uk
 The
University
of Edinburgh
was founded in 1583, making it one of
Scotland’s
four ancient universities. Today, the University is a leading European
centre of academic excellence. As a great civic University,
Edinburgh
especially values its intellectual and economic relationship with the
Scottish community that forms its base and provides the foundation from
which it will continue to look to the widest international horizons,
enriching both itself and
Scotland.
The University's academic disciplines are structured into 21 Schools in
three Colleges: Humanities and Social Science, Medicine and Veterinary
Medicine, and Science and Engineering. The College structure underpins a
broad range of courses with students able to choose their studies from
more than 300 degree programmes.
The University's operations are spread throughout
the city in an estate ranging from some of the oldest buildings in
Edinburgh to modern,
purpose built and highly specialised facilities.
Edinburgh is
one of the
UK’s
larger, more diverse research universities, with a current student
population of over 23,500 (roughly 17,000 undergraduates and 6,500
postgraduates). The University
of Edinburgh
is the largest university in
Scotland
and, with over 4000 international students drawn from more than 130
different countries, our student body is extremely cosmopolitan. Nearly
6000 students are housed in University accommodation.
Distinguished former students or staff members include
philosopher David Hume; chemist Joseph Black; physicist James Clerk
Maxwell; geologist James Hutton; medical pioneer Elsie Inglis; Charles
Darwin; Joseph Lister; Niels Bohr and the novelists Walter Scott, Robert
Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Rankin; and the Prime
Minister Gordon Brown.
Edinburgh
is
Scotland's
leading research-intensive University, with a very strong profile across
a wide subject range.
The University’s position as one of the world’s leading research
universities is reaffirmed by the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise
(RAE) results, with Edinburgh ranked 5th overall in the UK
and top in Scotland by volume of ‘world-leading’ and ‘internationally
excellent’ (4*/3*) research.
The University's engagement with industry is significant and in addition
to technology licensing, commercially-funded research and patent
activities, Edinburgh actively
supports knowledge transfer and the creation of start-up companies. Edinburgh collaborates
extensively around the world in numerous research fields and is known
worldwide for its cutting-edge research in a large number of areas,
including Informatics and Medicine. It makes significant contributions
to Scottish society in areas such as Law, Education, Divinity and
Management.
The University
of
Edinburgh sends students
to what have now become the annual Universitas 21 events of the
Summer School and the Undergraduate Research Conference. We see these as
valuable opportunities for our students to participate in international
learning forums and to showcase the quality of our learning and
teaching. Student feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and we are
looking forward to increasing and enhancing our participation in these
projects.
The University is also active in a number of specific projects including
(but not exclusively) the Research Ethics Project, the proposed Virtual
Museums Project and the Archives and Records group.The Universitas 21 Contact Manager at the University of Edinburgh is
Mr Melvyn Cornish,
University Secretary. |
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