The University of Edunburgh has been offering education to students for over 400 years, continually developing to meet their changing needs and expectations.

The University of Edinburgh strives to offer the best educational experience possible. Their exceptional staff and facilities, unique history, cutting-edge research, location in Scotland's amazing capital and the mix of students all help to make your learning experience good.

The University of Edinburgh is not only successful in Scotland, or even the UK, but is succesful and famous world-wide. They have a well-deserved international reputation for excellence, such as the work with Stanford University on Informatics. Many of the degree programmes offer the opportunity to spend some time studying abroad. Perhaps this international dimension helps explain why they have the largest proportion of international students of any Scottish university.

The University of Edinburgh was established in 1583, and is therefore one of Scotland’s ancient universities. The University provides over 350 different first degree programmes, including over 200 joint degree combinations, spread across some 100 academic disciplines. More than 22,000 students study here, from all over the world and from a variety of backgrounds. The University has 21 Schools in three Colleges: Humanities & Social Science, Medicine & Veterinary Medicine, and Science & Engineering.

Edinburgh, Scotland's capital city, is one of the greenest and architecturally most beautiful cities in Northern Europe
They come not only for the architecture, but for a city rich in social, cultural, learning and sporting facilities. Each year the city plays host to internationally renowned events such as the Edinburgh International Arts, Fringe, Film, TV and Science Festivals.

With over 23,000 students, 5,800 from an international background and about 137 nationalities, Edinburgh University has a very cosmopolitan and diverse student community.

Fees:
College of Humanities & Social Sciences: £9,400 per annum (£ 4,950 per semester)

College of Science & Engineering: £12,550 per annum (£ 6,525 per semester)

Fees For New EU Students 2007-08

• For Undergraduate students from the EU the fees for 2007/08 are: £1,735 for the full academic year. Please note that there is a different fee for continuing students from EU countries. Please refer to the Registry website for full details: www.registry.ed.ac.uk/fees/.
  
  EU students can apply to the Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) to cover the payment of these fees, but after graduation each student will asked to pay a 'graduate endowment' back to the SAAS. In 2006/07 the graduate endowment charge was set at £2,289. Link to the SAAS website here.


• Postgraduate fees for EU applicants (2007/08) are listed on the Registry website: www.registry.ed.ac.uk/fees/
• Visiting Students from the EU: fees for 2007/08 are £1,735 for the full academic year (50% of this rate is charged for students here for only one semester. Please note the SAAS do not cover payment of tuition fees for Visiting students.

From the University Website:

The University’s mission is the advancement and dissemination of knowledge and understanding. As a leading international centre of academic excellence, the University has as its core mission:

• to sustain and develop its position as a research and teaching institution of the highest international quality and to benchmark its performance against world-class standards;
• to provide an outstanding educational environment, supporting study across a broad range of academic disciplines and serving the major professions;
• to produce graduates equipped for high personal and professional achievement; and
• to contribute to society, promoting health, economic and cultural wellbeing.

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.