Heriot-Watt University is a product of the Scottish Enlightenment. A pioneer in bringing education to working people in 1821 and founder of a global movement through the creation of the world's first ...

Twenty years before legislation forced Scottish universities to open their doors to women in 1889, Mary Burton (1819–1909), a pioneering campaigner for educational and social reform, led a successful ...

Online students and alumni studying an Edinburgh Business School programme are able to access Coursera Career Academy free of charge during or after their studies. Students can supplement their ...

Our Dubai campus cultivates a truly multi-cultural environment in which our students and employees live to the full, make lasting friendships and enjoy everything that one of the world's greatest ...

This world-leading MSc/MS joint degree programme is presented by two of the world’s oldest and most esteemed textile institutions: Heriot-Watt University and Thomas Jefferson University (USA). In the ...

To maintain our high level of achievement in research innovation, industry collaboration and enterprise, we continually invest in the resources and infrastructure that support a research-led ...

The unique opportunity to carry your studies to new places and experience new cultures, expanding your horizons on the way. You'll discover what it means to be a true global citizen and emerge ...

We are welcoming arrivals for 2025/ 2026 from Saturday 30 August 2025- Saturday 13 September 2025. All students must complete the mandatory online accommodation induction and book a time slot through ...

A further 10,000 oysters have been reintroduced into the Firth of Forth thanks to the help of an Edinburgh charity. It means that in total, 40,000 European flat oysters have now entered the water over ...

Heriot-Watt scientists have discovered giant underwater mud waves buried deep below the Atlantic Ocean, 400 kilometres off the coast of Guinea-Bissau in west Africa. The massive underwater sediment ...

Scottish cleantech building materials company Kenoteq, a spinout from Heriot-Watt University, is set to transform the UK construction market as its revolutionary K-BRIQ achieves certification from the ...

Overconfident chief executives and their risky behaviours can be partly restrained through credit ratings, new research finds. The research, which is published in the journal, European Financial ...