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UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH
BASIC INFORMATION:
BRIEF HISTORY:
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Located in the capital of Scotland, Edinburgh
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Edinburgh University’s motto is ‘Seek and You Shall Find’
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There are over 49,000 students at Edinburgh, with 30,000 of those being undergraduate students
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The student faculty ratio is 18:1
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Edinburgh University officially opened in 1583 and thus making it the sixth-oldest university in the United Kingdom and is one of the four ancient Scottish universities
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The university received its first black graduate, William Fergusson, in 1813. Additionally, in 1893, the university had its first female students graduate
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The university is home to experiments such as Dolly the Sheep, the first animal to be cloned from an adult somatic stem cell
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES:
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The university offers almost 400 undergraduate programmes
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The university was 1st in the UK 2023 for Sports Science, and ranked in the top 30 universities in the world for life sciences, as well as clinical and health subjects
ALUMNI:
SOME FAMOUS ALUMNI:
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19 Noble Prize Laureates
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3 Turing Award winners
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Abel Prize Laureate
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Fields Medallist
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2 Pulitzer Prize winners
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3 UK Prime Ministers
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Charles Darwin (English naturalist, biologist and geologist)
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Edward VII (Previous King of the United Kingdom)
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David Hume (Scottish Enlightenment, philosopher and historian)
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Gordan Brown (Previous Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
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Pippa Middleton (Sister of the Princess of Wales)
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Laura Kuenssberg (British Journalist)
CAMPUS INFO:
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There are five main campuses being Central Area, King’s Buildings, BioQuarter, Easter Bush and Western General
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The university is responsible for St Cecilia’s Hall, which is Scotland’s oldest concert hall.
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The university has a hybrid of ‘campus’ and ‘city’ feeling for students
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There are 10 libraries, all scattered around the various campuses at Edinburgh University
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