University of Edinburgh

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The University's mission is the creation, dissemination, and curation of knowledge. As a world-leading center of academic excellence, we aim to:

• Enhance our position as one of the world's leading research and teaching universities and to measure our performance against the highest international standards
• Provide the highest quality learning and teaching environment for the greater wellbeing of our students
• Produce graduates fully equipped to achieve the highest personal and professional standards
• Make a significant, sustainable, and socially responsible contribution to Scotland, the UK, and the world, promoting health and economic and cultural wellbeing.

As a great civic university, Edinburgh especially values its intellectual and economic relationship with the Scottish community that forms its base and provides the foundation from which it will continue to look to the most comprehensive international horizons, enriching both itself and Scotland.

The University of Edinburgh has been notified of the University and College Union (UCU), which will involve several strike days over four weeks. This is a national dispute which centers on proposals to amend the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) pension scheme.

Living in Edinburgh with one of the world's best universities, Edinburgh also tops the list for atmosphere, positive reputation, and desirability, beating off competition from London and York. The capital also fairs well in terms of cultural experience, safety for visitors, cuisine, and various shops.

With our rich history, noted alumni, and distinguished scholars, we have much to be proud of in our many centuries as a world-renowned university. From Nobel laureates and Olympic champions to space explorers and prime ministers, the University of Edinburgh has influenced history since it opened the gates to its first students in 1583. We are the home of Britain's oldest literary awards, the James Tait Black Prizes and Dolly the sheep, the first animal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell.

It was also here at the University of Edinburgh that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was inspired to create his notorious character, Sherlock Holmes, and James Young Simpson pioneered anesthetics through his discovery of chloroform properties. More recently, theoretical physicist and Professor Emeritus Peter Higgs were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his 1964 prediction of the Higgs Boson. Through its staff and students' many achievements, the University has continued to present cutting-edge research, inspirational teaching, and innovative thinking as its central ethos, attracting some of the greatest minds from around the globe.

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