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Heriot-Watt University
Oilthigh Heriot-Watt | |
 Coat of Arms | |
| Motto | Leaders in ideas and solutions |
|---|---|
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1821 – School of Arts of Edinburgh 1852 – Watt Institution and School of Arts 1885 – Heriot-Watt College 1966 – university by Royal Charter |
| Endowment | £12.2 million (2023)[1] |
| Budget | £259.5 million (2022/23)[1] |
| Chancellor | Sir Geoff Palmer |
| Principal | Richard Williams |
Academic staff | 925 Scotland based (2023)[2] |
Administrative staff | 1,737[3] |
| Students | Global: 31,000[3] Edinburgh: 11,625 (2022/23)[4] |
| Undergraduates | Edinburgh: 7,185 (2022/23)[4] |
| Postgraduates | Edinburgh: 4,440 (2022/23)[4] |
| Location | , Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Other campus locations | Scottish Borders Orkney Dubai Malaysia |
| Affiliations | Association of Commonwealth Universities Universities Scotland Universities UK |
| Website | www |
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Heriot-Watt University (Scottish Gaelic: Oilthigh Heriot-Watt) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was established in 1821 as the School of Arts of Edinburgh, the world's first mechanics' institute, and was subsequently granted university status by royal charter in 1966. It is the eighth-oldest higher education institution in the United Kingdom.[5] The name Heriot-Watt was taken from Scottish inventor James Watt and Scottish philanthropist and goldsmith George Heriot.
The annual income of the institution for 2022–23 was £259.5 million of which £33 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £266.7 million.[1] Known for its focus on science as well as engineering, it is one of the 23 colleges that were granted university status in the 1960s, and it is sometimes considered a plate glass university, like Lancaster and Warwick.[6][7]
The university has three campuses in Scotland and one each in the UAE and Malaysia.
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- ^ "Who's working in HE?". www.hesa.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 29 July 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
- ^ a b "Annual statistics 2011–12" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 August 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
- ^ a b c "Where do HE students study?". Higher Education Statistics Agency. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
- ^ "UAE's best universities: Heriot-Watt University". The National. 20 April 2022. Archived from the original on 20 April 2022. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ^ Boliver, Vikki (2015). "Are there distinctive clusters of higher and lower status universities in the UK?" (PDF). Oxford Review of Education. 41 (5): 608–627. doi:10.1080/03054985.2015.1082905. S2CID 143154842. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 September 2021. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
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