Universities in UK | University of Aberdeen

The University of Aberdeen is home to 12 different schools which offers a broad range of subjects and disciplines. The schools include:

• Arts and Social Sciences
• Life Sciences and Medicines
• Physical Science
• Business School
• Postgraduate Research School

The university is one of the UK’s top 30 universities, says the Complete University Guide 2020 and the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020. The university was awarded the Scottish University of the year 2020 by the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019.

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 Arts and Social Science

The faculty of Arts and Social Science offers a wide range of subjects in the following departments:

• Divinity, History, Philosophy and Art History
  • The school offers courses in various disciplines including Art History, Divinity, History, Scandinavian Studies, Philosophy.
  • The area of study related to history are Scottish and European History, Vikings, Medieval Europe, the History and Philosophy of Science, and how to read and think about history.
  • The Scandinavian Studies specialises in literature, history, language and culture of Viking Age and Medieval Scandinavia
• Education:
  • The primary departments of the school are Initial Teacher Education; Counselling, Wellbeing and Educational Psychology, Postgraduate Taught and Professional Learning; Early Childhood Education and Care.
• Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture
  • The subject area of this school includes English; Music; Modern Languages and Culture; Language and Linguistics; Film and Visual Culture; Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Studies; Translation and Interpreting.
• Law:
  • The School of Law offers a wide variety of LLB degrees. This includes the LLB with English Law and more.
• Social Science
  • The school of Social Science offers courses in the subject areas of Anthropology, Politics and International Relations, Sociology.

Life Sciences and Medicines

The schools incorporating the Life Sciences and Medicine are:

• Biological Sciences
  • The school has wide range of well-established research facilities which such as the Aquarium Facility (Fresh water with three independent streams and seawater tank comprising 30 tanks); Environmental Analytical Suite (microwave digestion, traditional digestion blocks, Kjeldhal and Soxhlet capabilities).
• Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
  • The school offers a wide range of courses in various domains. However, the school is specialized in the following subject areas
    • Medicine
    • Dentistry
    • Medical Sciences
  • Psychology
    • All the courses offered by the school are accredited to the British Psychological Society (BPS)
    • The specialized subject areas of the school include Mental Health, Organizational Psychology, Applied Development Psychology.

Physical Science

The faculty offers a wide-ranging portfolio of Engineering and energy related programmes which are strongly supported by industry. The schools incorporating the Physical Sciences are:

• Engineering
  • The school of Engineering offers wide range of courses in the subject areas including:
    • Chemical Engineering
    • Civil and Structural Engineering
    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
    • Mechanical Engineering
    • Petroleum Engineering
  • All the courses of the school are accredited by the Engineering Council.
  • The school has many well-established facilities which gives practical experience to the students during their period of study. The facilities include Laboratories dedicated to satellite communications, computer aided design, electrical machines, materials testing, laser welding, hydraulics and fluids, concrete, large structures and geotechnics.
• Geosciences
  • The school comprises of four departments namely:
    • Archaeology
      • The department of Archeology has many facilities including the Petrographic and stereomicroscopes; Palynology laboratory; Hydrology laboratory; Dirty and clean sedimentary laboratories; Soil chemistry laboratory; Bioarchaeology laboratory and faunal reference collection; Archaeological Chemistry laboratory; Trace Element Speciation Laboratory.
    • Geography and Environment
      • All the courses of this department are accredited to The Geological Society
      • The facilities of the department include the Art visualisation and seismic interpretation facilities; microscopy, petrophysics, palynology and geochemistry laboratories.
    • Geology and Geophysics
    • Planetary sciences
      • The department has developed collaborations with many institutes include the Desert Research Institute (USA); National Centre for Scientific Research (France); Jawaharlal Nehru University (India); Roscosmos (Russia); University of Vilnius (Ludhiana) and more
    • Natural and Computing Sciences
      • The school of Natural and Computing Sciences offers programmes in the following subject areas:
        • Chemistry
        • Computing Science
        • Mathematical Sciences
        • Physics

Business School

The school offers programmes in the following subject areas:

• Accounting
• Business Management
• Economics
• Finance
• International Business
• Real Estate

The school offers Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Marketing and Real Estate.  The school has the following research centers the Aberdeen Centre for Research in Energy Economics and Finance; The Centre for Real Estate Research; Scottish Experimental Economics Laboratory; The Centre for European Labour Market Research; Africa-Asia Centre for Sustainability.

The school is ranked 4^th in the UK for Accounting and Finance and ranked 11^th for Business Management Studies, according to the Complete University Guide 2021.

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