Higher Education

Higher Education Provision

Angus has no less than five Universities within easy reach, all with excellent academic reputations and first-class entertainment and recreation facilities. All five Universities have international status and attract students and leading scholars worldwide.

This diversity provides local school leavers with good options to develop locally, making Angus workforce highly skilled.

• The University of Dundee has performed extremely well in both teaching and research assessment, spawning dynamic companies to exploit its research. This innovative university has a model wider-access curriculum and an ambitious distance learning programme on an international scale, especially in medical related areas.
• The University of Abertay, Dundee offers world-leading courses in computer arts and computer games technology and is home to the International Centre for Computer Games and Virtual Entertainment, unique in Europe. It is ranked first in Scotland for its environmental research and offers superb IT facilities.
• Aberdeen University is at the forefront of teaching and research in medicine, the humanities and science. This university has a full undergraduate and postgraduate portfolio and also offers postgraduate training including taught programmes and research degrees.
• Robert Gordon University offers courses from evening classes to postgraduate studies, part-time study to online learning. Its flexible approach to higher education is designed to suit everyone's lifestyle and situation.
• For almost six centuries, St Andrews University has upheld the tradition of academic excellence, attracting scholars of international repute and students from all over the world. This university strives to offer the latest in teaching and research.