Biomedical Sciences (Pharmacology)

BSc, Single Honours

The primary goal of Biomedical Science is to enhance understanding of human body function in health and disease.

View Degree

Biomedical Sciences (Pharmacology) with Industrial Placement

MSci, Major-Minor Honours

Enhance your undergraduate degree with a year's placement in an industrial, commercial or research environment.

View Degree

Biomedical Sciences (Physiology)

BSc, Single Honours

The primary goal of Biomedical Science is to enhance understanding of human body function in health and disease.

View Degree

Biomedical Sciences (Physiology) with Industrial Placement

MSci, Major-Minor Honours

Enhance your undergraduate degree with a year's placement in an industrial, commercial or research environment.

View Degree

Biotechnology (Applied Molecular Biology)

BSc, Single Honours

Biotechnology is the application of biology to improve the quality of human life.

View Degree

Biotechnology (Applied Molecular Biology) with Industrial Placement

MSci, Single Honours

Enhance your undergraduate degree with a year's placement in an industrial, commercial or research environment.

View Degree

Business Management

MA, Single Honours

Business Management at Aberdeen explores the theory and practice of how people and organisations are managed in a highly competitive global business environment, taught by leaders in this highly topical field. You will benefit from real-life scenarios and the input of national and local employers, giving you the skills, experience and attributes for a head start across a wide range of careers in the international business world.

View Degree

Business Management and Economics

MA, Joint Honours

Business Management and Economics at Aberdeen is a perfect partnership for brilliant career opportunities in business or the public sector, giving you wide knowledge and skills in management, people and organisations in a fast-moving environment with many influences and driven by global, regional and local economy.

View Degree

Business Management and English

MA, Joint Honours

Business Management and English at Aberdeen adds extra value to your strong business grounding and people skills. You will graduate with a combination of analytical, technical and communication skills and perspective, which will appeal strongly to employers in business and many fields.

View Degree

Business Management and Finance

MA, Joint Honours

Business Management and Finance at Aberdeen gives you the ideal springboard to a brilliant career in any area and size of business or public sector organisation. You will learn how management and organisations function in a fast-moving environment and how market influences are driven by global, regional and local economy.

View Degree

Business Management and French

MA, Joint Honours

Business Management and French at Aberdeen brings international opportunities to your solid grounding in business skills, with the competitive edge of a modern European language, cultural perspective and experience – and a fast track to a career in European and international organisations and business.

View Degree

Business Management and French (5 years)

MA, Joint Honours

Business Management and French at Aberdeen brings international opportunities to your solid grounding in business skills, with the competitive edge of a modern European language, cultural perspective and experience – and a fast track to a career in European and international organisations and business.

View Degree

Business Management and Gaelic Studies

MA, Joint Honours

Business Management and Gaelic at Aberdeen is a great study combination, adding to a thorough grounding in management and organisations with an in-depth study of Gaelic, Scotland’s oldest living language, and its origins and culture. The language, perspective and skills you will develop will give an extra advantage for a wide range of career options, especially with a Scottish or international dimension.

View Degree

Business Management and Geography

MA, Joint Honours

Geography remains a very current and relevant subject, particularly in areas that focus on the environment. Adding a Business Management focus to Geography is an excellent way to open up a much wider range of career opportunities, whilst helping you to better understand the business, commercial and financial implications of the environment, the Earth, sustainability and many other key geography related areas of focus.

View Degree

Business Management and German

MA, Joint Honours

Business Management and German at Aberdeen adds considerable career benefits to your solid grounding in business, management and organisations, giving you the competitive advantage of a modern European language. You will gain cultural perspective and experience and a fast track to a career in European and international organisations and business.

View Degree

Business Management and German (5 years)

MA, Joint Honours

Business Management and German at Aberdeen adds considerable career benefits to your solid grounding in business, management and organisations, giving you the competitive advantage of a modern European language. You will gain cultural perspective and experience and a fast track to a career in European and international organisations and business.

View Degree

Business Management and History

MA, Joint Honours

Business Management and History at Aberdeen will add value to your business grounding and people skills. You will study both subject within the context of world events - recent as well as historic, and will learn about the recent histories of Europe, East Asia and other regions important in today’s global economy. You will gain additional transferable skills that will be highly welcomed by prospective employers.

View Degree

Business Management and Information Systems

BSc, Joint Honours

Business Management and Information Systems at Aberdeen brings together a solid grounding in business, people and organisations with in-depth study of how organisations of all sizes and in all sectors use information systems and technology as vital tools for business success. This excellent combination of subjects, with invaluable input from industry and emphasis on teamwork, has a brilliant track record in securing employment for our graduates with major blue-chip companies.

View Degree

Business Management and Information Systems

MA, Joint Honours

Business Management and Information Systems at Aberdeen brings together a solid grounding in business, people and organisations with in depth study of how organisations of all sizes and in all sectors use information systems and technology as vital tools for business success. This excellent combination of subjects, with invaluable input from industry and emphasis on teamwork, has a brilliant track record in securing employment for our graduates with major blue-chip companies.

View Degree

Business Management and International Relations

MA, Joint Honours

Business Management and International Relations at Aberdeen is a perfect pairing, setting your solid grounding in business, management and organisations in the wide context of world events. This programme will improve your understanding of how organisations, states and governments interact against a constantly changing global and economic scene. This programme will give you an added international dimension to your excellent career prospects.

View Degree

Business Management and Legal Studies

MA, Joint Honours

Business Management and Legal Studies at Aberdeen is a great combination, adding to your solid grounding in business, management and organisations with a deeper focus on the legal framework within which businesses of all sizes operate. You will gain highly developed analytical and academic skills, which will give you a head start in international business and many other career options.

View Degree

Business Management and Mathematics

MA, Joint Honours

Business Management and Mathematics at Aberdeen is an excellent combination to develop the range of skills sought by employers, such as logical and analytical thinking, reasoning and argument. These skills will set you apart as an outstanding candidate with the potential to go right to the top in whichever sector you choose.

View Degree

Business Management and Politics

MA, Joint Honours

Business Management and Politics at Aberdeen is a great subject combination, adding to your solid foundation in business, management and organisations. The programme has a specific focus on the role of government, political parties, issues and policy and how they interact with the changing corporate landscape, big business, local and national economies and the workforce. This programme will open many career options in the government, public sector and business.

View Degree

Business Management and Psychology

MA, Joint Honours

Business Management and Psychology at Aberdeen go together brilliantly, providing a rigorous examination of how we think and behave as individuals and giving a thorough grounding in business, management and organisations. People are the most valuable asset of any business and this subject combination will give you in-depth knowledge of how people behave as part of a workforce – opening up a range of fascinating career options.

View Degree

Business Management and Real Estate

MA, Joint Honours

Business Management and Real Estate at Aberdeen is the perfect springboard to a brilliant career in the international property world. This programme combines strong business and management skills with in-depth study of real estate markets from the perspectives of economics, investment and business. Studying at Scotland's top centre you will gain professional accreditation from a university with a strong tradition of employment with major international companies in the real estate world.

View Degree

Business Management and Sociology

MA, Joint Honours

Business Management and Sociology at Aberdeen is a perfect partnership to add to your thorough grounding in business, organisations and ‘people’. The programme offers an in-depth exploration of how society shapes us as individuals in different ways – helping us to understand ourselves, our relationships with others and the challenges we face in a changing world.

View Degree

Business Management and Spanish & Latin American Studies (5 years)

MA, Joint Honours

Business Management and Spanish & Latin American Studies at Aberdeen brings international opportunities to your firm foundation in business, organisations and management through adding the competitive advantage of a modern European language widely spoken in the US and Latin America. The skills you will develop on this programme will be of great appeal to multinational employers and set you on a fast track to a career in international business, NGOs, or other sector.

View Degree

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies

MA, Single Honours

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies at Aberdeen is an exciting new programme, building on a strong track record of Celtic teaching to offer a fascinating, flexible and interdisciplinary study of the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Scandinavian peoples. You will cross traditional boundaries of literature, history and culture, and develop skills which open wide career options across the arts, media and more.

View Degree

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and English

MA, Joint Honours

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and English at Aberdeen adds to a fascinating study of the lives and legacy of the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Scandinavian peoples. In this programme, you will explore English language and literature through the ages and in all its glory, at a leading centre ranked second in the UK for the quality of our research. You will graduate with wide career options across the arts and skills transferable whichever direction you choose.

View Degree

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and Film & Visual Culture

MA, Joint Honours

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and Film & Visual Culture adds to your fascinating study of the lives and legacy of the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Scandinavian peoples with a rigorous training in the history and theory of the moving image. This subject combination provides an ideal preparation for a career in the arts, broadcasting or heritage management and the essential skills you will develop will make you attractive to employers in whichever career path you choose.

View Degree

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and French

MA, Joint Honours

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and French is an excellent subject combination, setting the lives and legacy of the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Scandinavian peoples within a deeper European historical and contemporary context through study of the French language, history and culture. This subject combination provides an ideal preparation for a career in the arts, broadcasting, or heritage management, and also adds the international dimension to open options including business or tourism.

View Degree

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and French (5 years)

MA, Joint Honours

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and French is an excellent subject combination, setting the lives and legacy of the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Scandinavian peoples within a deeper European historical and contemporary context through study of the French language, history and culture. This subject combination provides an ideal preparation for a career in the arts, broadcasting or heritage management and also adds the international dimension to open options including business or tourism.

View Degree

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and Gaelic Studies

MA, Joint Honours

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and Gaelic Studies is an ideal subject combination to add to your study in the lives and legacy of the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Scandinavian peoples. You will explore Gaelic from its Celtic origins to its role today as Scotland’s oldest living language. The language, historical perspective and study skills you will develop will give you a great advantage for a wide range of career options, especially with a Scottish or international dimension.

View Degree

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and German (5 years)

MA, Joint Honours

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and German is an excellent subject combination, setting the lives and legacy of the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian peoples within a deeper European language, historical and contemporary context through study of the German language, history and culture. This subject combination is ideal preparation for a career in the arts, broadcasting, or heritage management, and also adds the international dimension to open options including business or tourism.

View Degree

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and History

MA, Joint Honours

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and History at Aberdeen adds to your exploration of the lives and legacy of the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Scandinavian peoples within a broad study of human activity. Aberdeen is steeped in 500 years of history, with fabulous collections of historic treasures, today ranked top in Scotland for the impact of its historical research – and you will gain the transferable skills to open up a wide spectrum of career opportunities.

View Degree

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and History of Art

MA, Joint Honours

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and History of Art adds to your exploration of the lives and legacy of the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian peoples and their art and visual culture, tracing artistic development forward to the present day. Aberdeen is Scotland’s top-rated university for the impact of its research in history of art and the perfect choice to gain the specialist and transferable skills to open up a wide spectrum of exciting career opportunities.

View Degree

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and Language & Linguistics

MA, Joint Honours

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies combined with Language & Linguistics adds to your exploration of the lives and legacy of the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian peoples with a deeper exploration of language, how it defines us as humans and how analysing this special human attribute helps us understand ourselves and our societies more fully. You will gain essential skills in critical thinking, analysis and research to make you attractive to employers whatever your career choice.

View Degree

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and Philosophy

MA, Joint Honours

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and Philosophy adds to your exploration of the lives and legacy of the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian peoples with an examination of life's ‘big questions’ – how we apply reasoning and argument to questions of fundamental importance to us humans past and present. The intellectual skills you will develop and their transferability will make you a very attractive graduate with very wide career options, including in business.

View Degree

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and Sociology

MA, Joint Honours

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and Sociology at Aberdeen adds to your comprehensive study of the lives and legacy of the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian peoples with a deeper exploration of how society shapes us as individuals in all sorts of ways – helping us to understand ourselves, our relationships with others, and the challenges we face in a changing world and developing intellectual skills to be a very attractive graduate with very wide career options.

View Degree

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and Spanish & Latin American Studies (5 years)

MA, Joint Honours

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and Spanish & Latin American Studies sets your exploration of the lives and legacy of the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian peoples within a European historical and contemporary context through study of Spanish and its use and culture in Spain and Latin America. This combination provides an ideal preparation for a career in the arts, broadcasting or heritage management and also adds the international dimension to open options including business or tourism.

View Degree

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and Theology & Religious Studies

MA, Joint Honours

Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and Theology & Religious Studies widens your comprehensive study of the lives and legacy of the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian peoples with a deeper exploration of the origin, function, and meaning of religion, comparing the major religions across the world and with special focus on Christian faith in historic and contemporary contexts.

View Degree

Certificate in Archaeology

Certificate, Non-Honours

Archaeology is the only discipline that studies the human past in its entirety; from the origins of our species to the events of yesterday. Archaeology at Aberdeen has a special northern focus that is unique in the UK. Through lectures, field and laboratory work you will engage with the archaeology of Scotland, Scandinavia, northern Europe, the North Atlantic and northern latitudes of Asia and North America. You will be taught by internationally acclaimed researchers.

View Degree

Chemical Engineering

MEng, Single Honours

Chemical engineers contribute to society by helping to manage resources, protecting the environment and controlling health and safety procedures.

If you have an aptitude and fascination for how the physical world works, are interested in how chemical reactions and the physical properties of matter can be harnessed to create world-changing technologies, and want to contribute positively to making the life of the human race better, then you should consider Chemical Engineering.

View Degree

Chemical Engineering

BEng, Single Honours

Chemical engineers contribute to society by helping to manage resources, protecting the environment and controlling health and safety procedures.

If you have an aptitude and fascination for how the physical world works, are interested in how chemical reactions and the physical properties of matter can be harnessed to create world-changing technologies, and want to contribute positively to making the life of the human race better, then you should consider Chemical Engineering.

View Degree

Chemistry

BSc, Single Honours

Chemistry is a core science that is not only the very essence of life, but is also concerned with the quality of life and its continuing improvement. It is often regarded as the central science, and a degree in chemistry provides a student with many key skills which can be used in many areas not necessarily restricted to the discipline.

View Degree

Chemistry (5 years)

MChem, Single Honours

The MChem degree at the University of Aberdeen is a 5 year programme accredited by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and leading to the professional qualification of Chartered Chemist.

View Degree

Childhood Practice

BA, Single Honours

This is a work-based programme validated by the Scottish Social Services Council for registration as a manager and is designed to meet the needs of a range of individuals involved in working with children. It is offered as a part-time, on-line distance learning programme and is based on course elements detailed in the benchmark statements provided by QAA Education Studies, SCQF and the Standard for Childhood Practice. The degree has been designed to promote and encourage the use of workplace based activities as the basis for academic study. Due to its flexibility, it provides a route into degree level studies for participants from non-traditional backgrounds.

View Degree

Civil and Environmental Engineering (5 years)

MEng, Single Honours

Civil and Environmental Engineering is a hugely relevant degree for today. The environment is a major consideration for local, national and international companies and governments, but never more is this true than when it comes to engineering projects of all sizes. Greater consideration has to be given to a range of environmental factors and this degree will go some way to making students aware of them.

View Degree

Civil and Structural Engineering (5 years)

MEng, Single Honours

Structural Engineering is generally recognised as a specialist area of Civil Engineering but the two areas are very similar. This is a perfect degree programme for those looking to succeed in this field as it offers up our hugely successful standard Civil Engineering degree but introduces a number of key areas of specialism.

View Degree

Civil Engineering (5 years)

MEng, Single Honours

Civil engineering is concerned with creative use of engineering principles and science to shape and improve our lives and our environment. Civil engineers are involved in seeing major infrastructure projects through from design to construction and completion.

View Degree