University of Dundee

The University of Dundee is a public university in Dundee, Scotland. It opened in 1881 as University College, Dundee, joined the University of St Andrews, and became independent in 1967. It occupies a civic campus along Nethergate and Perth Road. After independence it added medicine, dentistry, law, and a large life-sciences cluster.

Schools include life sciences, medicine, dentistry, law, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, business, and science and engineering. Graduate students work in the School of Life Sciences, at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, and in the Drug Discovery Unit. Duncan of Jordanstone runs studio-based art, design, and animation degrees.

About 18,000 students enroll, including a large international postgraduate group from many countries. Staff, including researchers, number more than 3,000. Alumni include former NATO secretary general George Robertson and artist David Mach.

Master's and PhD work is laboratory-supervised in life sciences and studio-based at Duncan of Jordanstone; medicine and dentistry also offer research doctorates. The calendar follows Scottish autumn and spring semesters. Biomedical studentships from research councils and charities are a central funding route. Students live in a compact city on the Tay, with Ninewells and the waterfront a short trip from the main campus.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Dundee lists 6 graduate programs across 5 subjects, all of them master's programs, with the widest choice in accounting, business & management and civil engineering. University of Dundee holds rank 420 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.