HistoryStarting from the School of Arts of Edinburgh, established in 1821 as the world's first Mechanics Institute, Heriot-Watt is one of the most established advanced education foundations in the UK, and picked up college status by Royal Charter in 1966.
Heriot-Watt University has set up a notoriety for world-class instructing and functional, driving edge explore, which has made us one of the top UK colleges for business and industry.
Universal grounds opened in Dubai in 2005 and in Malaysia in 2013, offering understudies the unrivaled chance to exchange in the middle of grounds and get a really worldwide instruction.
Area and Transport
Heriot-Watt University has five grounds: three in the UK - Edinburgh, Scottish Borders and Orkney - one in Dubai and one in Malaysia.
The Edinburgh Campus joins a delightful parkland site with every one of the attractions offered by one of the world's awesome urban areas. With Scotland's busiest airplane terminal and the UK's biggest prepare station outside of London, Edinburgh is effortlessly open from both inside of the UK and universally.
Home to the School of Textiles and Design our Scottish Borders Campus is situated in the town of Galashiels. The Campus is a hour's drive from Edinburgh and there is a twice-day by day carry transport between the Edinburgh and Scottish Borders Campuses. Another Scottish Borders rail course will open in September 2015, giving rail access from Galashiels to Edinburgh.
The International Center for Island Technology is based at the Orkney Campus in Stromness. This is a piece of Heriot-Watt's School of Life Sciences.
Heriot-Watt University's Dubai Campus is situated in Dubai International Academic City (DIAC), around 20 minutes from the Dubai business area.
Heriot-Watt University Malaysia's Campus is situated in Putrajaya. The grounds sits on 4.8 sections of land in a staggering lakeside area, near the Putrajaya marina and its cutting edge recreation and games offices.
Section Requirements
Section necessities differ by course and every application is considered on an individual premise. Candidates ought to likewise have the capacity to exhibit that they have the essential individual and social aptitudes required for fruitful execution at University. Candidates with especially decent evaluations might be qualified for second year section into our degree courses.
The University works an approach on logical admissions to bolster its broadening get to system. Assist points of interest are accessible on the web.
Progressive data on the base prerequisites for every course can be found on our site.
Understudy Mix
The 10,895 understudies selected in the scholastic year 2013/14 contain:
Level of study
Undergrad
67%
Postgraduate
33%
Method of study
Full Time
80%
Low maintenance
20%
Home
UK
64%
EU
11%
Other
25%
Understudy sexual orientation
Male
58%
Female
42%
Heriot-Watt reliably beats its national benchmarks for rate of contestants from state schools and regions of low HE investment.
More than 34% of understudies concentrating on in Scotland originate from outside the UK, the biggest extent in Scotland.
Every year Heriot-Watt University dispenses over £6 million as charge and stipend grants to more than 400 undergrad and postgraduate understudies.
Places are sought after with around a 20% general transformation rate of utilizations to puts for first degree programs. The proportion of utilizations to puts fluctuates for various trains.
Course Flexibility
As an understudy at Heriot-Watt you have an extraordinary chance to exploit our universal grounds areas in Dubai and Malaysia. Understudies who exchange between grounds profit by a much more extensive learning background. A year abroad will add to a worldwide standpoint and multi-social understanding that is key for work in the 21st century.
Adaptable particular educating with open doors for exchange in the middle of courses and projects.
Educating is bolstered by virtual learning situations which increase the value of the understudy learning background.
The Virtual Campus is exemplified by the mainstream SCHOLAR program, a learning asset for first year courses.
Educating Standards
By and large, 82% of understudies said they were fulfilled generally with involvement with Heriot-Watt, setting it third in Scotland and 39th in the UK, out of a sum of 124 establishments joining in (NSS 2014).
Examine Standards
Heriot-Watt University is an examination drove college spend significant time in science and building, business and administration, dialects and outline.
82% of Heriot-Watt's examination was appraised as world driving or globally phenomenal in the late Research Excellence Framework (REF).
Our exploration covers the full range from crucial and hypothetical studies, through research of quick importance to industry and business, to rehearse based studies. Amazing research can be found in each of our seven principle Schools, which are designed to give the greatest of chances to multi-and between disciplinary projects.
Scholastic Strengths
Heriot-Watt degrees are vocation engaged and significant to the needs of business and industry, with numerous projects authorize by expert bodies.
The University will help you to meet a portion of the top bosses, from the UK and over the world, through the astounding connections with business and industry that it has created, and through its program of manager presentations, vocations fairs and aptitudes advancement occasions.
College classes
Kind of Qualification:
All Postgraduate (505)
All Undergraduate (163)
Initially Degree (159)
Establishment Degree (2)
MBA (10)
Other Undergraduate (2)
Postgraduate (Research) (47)
Postgraduate (Taught) (458)
Method of study:
Separate/online (58)
Full-time (436)
Full-time with time abroad (12)
Low maintenance (161)
Sandwich (1)
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Understudy Facilities
There are magnificent administrations to guarantee you feel completely bolstered while learning at Heriot-Watt, including the Student Support and Accommodation Service, International Student Advisors, a recompense winning Careers Service, the Disability Service, a Health Center and the Chaplaincy.
All grounds have libraries with individual and gathering consider puts and organized PCs and printers to permit you to get to University-authorized programming, online databases and diaries, and in addition other web assets. Remote is accessible all through the grounds.
There is a full providing food benefit at both the Edinburgh and Scottish Borders Campus. The Edinburgh Campus additionally has a Blackwells bookshop and a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland.
The unrivaled offices at the Scottish Borders Campus are the main consider for some understudies picking the School of Textiles and Design. The School's offices go from art through modern to front line propelled advances, and incorporates the biggest sew and weave studios and longest screen-print table in Europe.
Incapacity Services
Heriot-Watt is focused on guaranteeing incapacity does not give an obstruction to existing and planned understudies.
The Disability Service gives exhortation and direction, to examine the backing that you require and the strides that the University needs to take to empower you to get to this backing.
Understudies' Union
Heriot-Watt University Student Union is controlled by understudies, for understudies. It expects to advance, shield and expand understudies' rights, give guidance and backing, engage understudy social and intentional action and in addition giving a scope of administrations in a domain where people can feel sheltered and ready to take an interest.
The Student Union respects any understudy who needs to get included, whether running occasions, advising, battling or sound designing. The rundown is interminable: there is something in the Student Union for everybody.
Some of your most vital encounters of University happen outside of study. At the Student Union you will locate a full program of week by week stimulations including unrecorded music, stand-up comic drama, club evenings and the notorious Monday night bar test. There is a bar and bistro where you can hang out with wi-fi get to, an awesome choice of nourishment, pool tables, amusements machines and TV.
The Student Union Advice and Support Center gives bolster on all parts of understudy life, including monetary guidance, advising and backing all through scholastic, disciplinary and budgetary issues.
Accessibility of Part-Time Work
The Careers Advisory Service publicizes occupations for the benefit of businesses who tell Heriot-Watt of their opening
Understudies are requested that enlist with Jobs Direct and set their profile for the sort of work they are searching for
At the point when any suitable new opportunity or business presentation is made accessible to the Careers Advisory Service understudies get a programmed email caution
Vocations Guidance
Understudies get a progression of chats on key profession subjects, by and large as a component of their course, including entire or part vocation advancement modules. This is moved down by individual direction through booked meetings or a drop-in administration.
The Careers Service composes eight professions fairs/knowledge occasions covering all key important mechanical parts and also giving an online opportunity benefit.
There is additionally a coaching plan which accomplices significant industry experts with understudies to help with the last's vocation arranging.
Later/Prospective New Builds
Heriot-Watt University Malaysia's motivation fabricated grounds opened in Putrajaya in September 2014. The £35-million grounds sits on 4.8 sections of land in a staggering lakeside area giving uncommon instructive offices in a magnificent situation, near the Putrajaya marina and its cutting edge recreation and games offices.
The new £20-million Lyell Center, booked for opening at the University's Edinburgh Campus in mid 2016, will be a noteworthy joint British Geological Survey (BGS)/Heriot-Watt University look into place for land, petroleum and sea life sciences, and the Scottish home office for BGS.