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University of Edinburgh

Influencing the world since 1583
The University of Edinburgh currently hosts more than 6,000 postgraduate students (approximately 1300 are online learners) who study across some 100 disciplines, the University attracts the greatest minds from across the globe, reflecting its position as one of the world’s leading universities. The University has started its ambitious drive to creating a postgraduate community of around 10,000 online learners in 10 years. This is central to the University’s strategy that there is wider, global access to our world-class postgraduate opportunities.

Since it’s foundation more than 400 years ago, our people and their achievements have rewritten history time and again. They’ve explored space, revolutionised surgery, published era-defining books, paved the way for life-saving medical breakthroughs and introduced to the world many inventions, discoveries and ideas from penicillin to Dolly the sheep. They have believed that anything is possible.

Our experts continue in that tradition, consistently striving to uncover the unknown, transforming science fiction into fact, and unveiling new possibilities for future generations.

Our achievements in the recent past alone will lead to improvements in the health, environment and technology sectors.

  • Discovered a gene that could help explain how people learn language
  • Discovered how to produce liver cells specific to certain ethnic groups, potentially revolutionising drug treatments
  • Invented a molecular device that could lead to the creation of futuristic, super-fast quantum computers
  • Invented new methods to improve the tracking of earthquakes
  • Developed a licensing policy that seeks to make life-saving medicines more accessible in the developing world
  • Developed innovative online medical teaching methods to help train medical students in developing nations

The Edinburgh influence
The university is consistently ranked one of the top 50* universities in the world and in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 96% of our academic departments were considered to produce world-leading research. Our graduates are some of the most sought after. In fact, we are top in graduate employment in the Russell Group of Universities. *Times Higher Education World University Rankings

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Online learning programmes
Online learning programmes at the University of Edinburgh:

Humanities and Social Science

Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

Science and Engineering

Entry requirements
To study at postgraduate level at Edinburgh, you need to hold a degree in an appropriate subject (equivalent to first or upper second class honours in the UK) or have a qualification or experience accepted as equivalent.

The University also requires international students to provide evidence of competence in written and spoken English.

Please see our website on English Language requirements for more details.

How to apply to Edinburgh
You can apply online from each degree visit us

Scholarships
Scholarship opportunities for outstanding scholars who wish to study our online learning programmes.

  • Edinburgh Global Online Distance Learning Master’s Scholarship
  • Online Masters Commonwealth Commission Scholarships
  • Edinburgh Global Health Academy Distance Learning Master's Scholarships

Please see our online learning scholarships website for more detailed information.

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