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The three Colleges at Aberdeen offer a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Students benefit from the skills of internationally renowned academics who actively promote research besides enhancing their own knowledge at the University of Aberdeen.
College of Arts and Social Science
The College of Arts and Social Science comprises six schools: business, divinity, history and philosophy, education, language & literature, law, and social science and proudly hosts two research institutes: The Elphinstone Institute and the Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies. It is home to around 5,000 undergraduate and 1,000 postgraduate students. Its MA in Arts and Social Sciences offers an extensive range of subjects, empowering students with skills and knowledge to prepare them for a successful career. It also offers insightful undergraduate degrees in Law, Education and Music. Its Graduate School is an innovative and fast-growing unit, targeted at the postgraduate student population, offering a wider range of multidisciplinary postgraduate programmes, many of which are highly relevant to industry needs.
College of Life Sciences and Medicine
Promoting dynamic research activity in its Schools: the School of Biological Sciences; the School of Medicine and Dentistry; the School of Medical Sciences; the School of Psychology and the Graduate School, the College of Life Sciences and Medicine encourages more than 3,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students to make the best use of its facilities. The Graduate School exclusively caters to postgraduate students, offering an excellent teaching and research environment. The College’s PhD and postgraduate programmes facilitate in-depth knowledge and also improve the prospect for a rewarding career.
College of Physical Sciences
The College of Physical Sciences offers degree courses across its three Schools: Engineering, Geosciences and Natural and Computing Sciences. It offers academically challenging courses to 2,500 undergraduate and postgraduate students and enables them to gain mastery over cutting-edge research activities. The teaching and research focus on real life issues, which include core sciences, technological and industry-focussed programmes and also courses with a social and environmental focus. The College’s Graduate School caters for the postgraduate student population and the master’s programmes on offer are highly relevant and designed to meet the needs of the industry.
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What’s inside:
Founded in 1495, the University of Aberdeen is the fifth oldest University in UK. Through the years, the University has never deviated from its core ideals on teaching, learning and discovery. Am
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For students with a passion for outdoor life , Aberdeen is the perfect city ! The beautiful valley of River Dee and Royal Deeside rests to its west while the North Sea and a coastline of sandy beach
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The University of Aberdeen has always been strongly committed towards academic and research excellence. The quality of the research activities carried out at Aberdeen has been validated by the &l
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The three Colleges at Aberdeen offer a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Students benefit from the skills of internationally renowned academics who actively promote research b
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The University offers outstanding learning resources to students, which include: A Million- Volume Library, a New Library Project, a Computing and Service Desk , Museums and Special Collections,
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Undergraduate Students
All applications for undergraduate degrees are made via the UCAS (the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service). The exceptions are students undertaking part-
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Aberdeen has an enviable track record in fulfilling these student aspirations. It has been proved that 97 per cent of its graduates either enter work or undertake further study or training within s
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Established in the year 1495, The College of Arts and Social Sciences is based at the picturesque King’s College Campus. This College comprises the Schools of Business , Divinity, History & Philosophy , Education , Language & Literatu
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The College of Physical Sciences comprises of three Schools:
School of Engineering
School of Geosciences
School of Natural and Computing Sciences The College offers degree programmes across a broad spectrum of interrelated an
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The School of Law at the University of Aberdeen is one of the oldest law schools in Europe dating back to 1495, when the University of Aberdeen was established with law as one of its foundation disciplines. Today students from all over the world ch
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