University of Aberdeen

The University of Aberdeen is a public university in Aberdeen, Scotland. King's College was founded in 1495 by William Elphinstone, and in 1860 it united with Marischal College, founded in 1593. The university occupies the historic Old Aberdeen campus and the Foresterhill medical campus beside Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

Work is organized in three colleges: arts and social sciences; life sciences and medicine; and physical sciences. Graduate strengths include energy and petroleum-related engineering and geoscience, law, medicine, and biological sciences. Foresterhill holds the medical school and related institutes; Old Aberdeen holds humanities, law, and many science departments around King's College.

About 14,000 to 15,000 students are enrolled. International students are often around 30 percent, from more than 120 countries. Academic staff number in the hundreds, plus research staff. Alumni include philosopher Thomas Reid, novelist Ali Smith, and UK cabinet minister Alistair Darling.

Graduate study includes taught master's degrees, research master's degrees, and PhD work under a supervisor in the Scottish pattern. Medicine is an MBChB with later clinical and research degrees. Two semesters structure the year. Science doctorates are commonly funded by studentships and research-council awards. Old Aberdeen is residential and historic; Foresterhill is a hospital-and-lab campus; the North Sea energy sector shapes applied graduate work in the city.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Aberdeen lists 12 graduate programs across 9 subjects, all of them master's programs, with the widest choice in finance & financial economics, psychology and business & management. University of Aberdeen holds rank 320 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.