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Edinburgh University Mountaineering Club at the cairn on Ciste Dhubh, 1964. Student sport at Edinburgh consists of clubs covering the more traditional rugby, football, rowing and judo, to the more unconventional korfball, gliding and mountaineering. In 2021, the university had over 65 sports clubs run by Edinburgh University Sports Union (EUSU ...
This is a list of notable graduates as well as non-graduate former students, academic staff, and university officials of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.It also includes those who may be considered alumni by extension, having studied at institutions that later merged with the University of Edinburgh.
Principals of the University of Edinburgh. Robert Rollock Sir David Brewster Sir Edward Appleton. 1586 Robert Rollock (Regent from 1583 to 1586) 1599 Henry Charteris; 1620 Patrick Sands; 1622 Robert Boyd; 1623 John Adamson (died in office in 1652 but the original successor, William Colvill, was unable to take the position until 1662) 1653 ...
Public lectures that were established in Edinburgh in the 1540s would eventually become the University of Edinburgh in 1582. [6] A university briefly existed in Fraserburgh between 1592 and 1605. [7] In 1641, the two colleges at Aberdeen were united by decree of Charles I (r. 1625–49), to form the ‘King Charles University of Aberdeen’. [8]
The School of Informatics is ranked 20th in the world by the QS World University Rankings 2023. As of 2022, the school is ranked 1st in the UK according to CSRankings , [ 4 ] 1st in the UK in the latest 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) by research power, [ 5 ] and 1st in the world for natural language processing (NLP).
Edinburgh Medical School was ranked third in the UK in the Research Excellence Framework 2014 for Neuroscience and Biological Sciences and top five for Clinical Medicine. Edinburgh University is a member of the Russell Group of universities, receiving a quanta of a third of British research funding. In the last UK-wide Research Assessment ...
View of King's Buildings from the Braid Hills. The King's Buildings (colloquially known as just King's or KB) is a campus of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.Located in the suburb of Blackford, the site contains most of the schools within the College of Science and Engineering, excepting only the School of Informatics and part of the School of Geosciences, which are located at the ...
Prior to this, the University was governed by the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and town council of Edinburgh. The rector's place in the university was codified by statute of the Westminster Parliament , the Universities (Scotland) Act 1889 , which provided for the election of a Rector at all universities then in existence in Scotland .