University of Edinburgh

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The University of Edinburgh (English, University of Edinburgh; Latin: Universitas Academica Edinburgensis ) was founded in 1583 and is a famous research and teaching institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, which is one of 20 universities of the world 's top. Accordingly, the university in the academic and media world is viewed as an elite university. It is - in addition to ( 1413 ) St. Andrews, Glasgow ( 1451 ) and Aberdeen ( 1495 ) - one of the four ancient Scottish universities ( "ancient universities "). In addition to the old four, there are only two older English universities: Oxford ( 1167 ) and Cambridge ( 1209). The University of Edinburgh, making it one of the largest and most prestigious universities in the UK. This is also reflected in the applications. Every year, about 47,000 students apply for admission to the University and make the University of Edinburgh in order to one of the three most sought-after universities in the UK. 2010, targeted admission in undergraduate area was reduced to about 2,700 places per year.

The University of Edinburgh is part of the Russell Group of major British, leading research universities. She is the only Scottish ( and apart from Oxford and Cambridge only UK ) University of the Coimbra Group and the LERU (League of European Research Universities ), the two leading associations of European universities. 2003 Edinburgh was the first Scottish university which awarded the Fair Trade status. The University of Edinburgh has an income of approximately £ Mio.634 and an endowment of approximately £ 200 million on far-reaching financial means, particularly for research purposes. With around £ 185 million, the University of Edinburgh has the sixth highest research income of all UK universities. The University brought 10 Nobel Prize winners, most recently Peter Higgs for the development of the Higgs mechanism, and is associated with three prime ministers.

• 5.1 policy
• 5.2 Natural Sciences
• 5.3 Humanities
• 5.4 Other
• 5.5 rectors

History

The university was in 1582 by James VI. founded by a Royal Charter - unusual at this time, as university foundations usually performed by a Papal bull. The following year, began the financial support of the College Tounis by the city council, making the university one of the first civic universities. Edinburgh was the fourth Scottish university at a time when the much larger and richer England had only two. In the 18th century Edinburgh was a leading center in the European Age of Enlightenment and one of the major training centers of the entire continent.

Prior to the establishment of the Old College, which was designed by Robert Adam, the university did not have a usual campus, but existed until the early 19th century into a jumble of teaching centers. The Old College was the first university building erected as part of the university, in him is now the University of Edinburgh School of Law accommodated. The first subjects were anatomy and aspiring surgery, from which it spread to the other areas of expertise.

Towards the end of the 19th century, it was too tight in the Old College, Robert Rowand Anderson so that in 1875 commissioned to design for a new medical teaching building. This building was essentially built to his design and completed by the addition of the McEwan Hall in the 1880s.

The now known as New College building was originally built as a school of the Free Church in the 1840s and houses since the 1920s theology.

In addition to the university includes a number of historic and modern buildings throughout the city, including the oldest purpose built concert hall in Scotland ( and second oldest in the British Isles ), St Cecilia's Concert Hall. Teviot Row House, the oldest building erected for this purpose a student association in the world and the carefully restored dorm Mylne 's Court from the 17th century are at the top of Edinburgh's Royal Mile.

Edinburgh's library is three years older than the university. Founded in 1580, its collection is today with more than 2 million periodicals, manuscripts, theses and print pieces, the largest university library in Scotland. It is housed in the main library building on George Square, the largest academic library buildings in Europe, as well as an extensive number of faculty libraries.

The two oldest schools - law and theology - are both highly regarded in their fields, the Faculty of Law at Old College, the theological in New College, on the Mound towards the temporary home of the Scottish Parliament. The awarding of the oldest and most prestigious literary prizes in the United Kingdom, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize since 1919, decided by the current Chair of English Literature.

The students of the college are represented by the EUSA ( Edinburgh University Students' Association ), in the Edinburgh University Union ( EUU ) from 1889 and the Student Representative Council (SRC ), the Robert Fitzroy Bell 1884,. The university also has a student newspaper (student), which was founded in 1887 by Robert Louis Stevenson.

2002, the University was reorganized. From its nine academic faculties were three ' Colleges ', though she never was technically a collegiate university. Today it consists of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences ( HSS), the College of Science & Engineering (SCE ) and the College of Medicine & Vet Medicine (MVM ). Within the College, there are 'Schools', which largely correspond to the departments from which they originated.

Admission & Candidates

2010 it was announced to limit registrations to 2,700 candidates per year. Due to the high number of applications 3,802 students were admitted Ultimately, however. The approval must therefore be extremely competitive. Only 8 % of applicants ultimately studying at the University. In particular, the admission of Philosophy, literature, geography, and the Business School is well under 5 % extremely competitive with general admission chances by about 10 % and actual approvals.

Prince William received - according to information from several major British newspapers - in 2000 a provisional authorization for the university. The approval was subject to certain notes as part of his university degree. In particular, Eton alumni, including Prince William counts, the University is widely consulted with about 70 applications per year. Pippa Middleton, the younger sister of Catherine Mountbatten -Windsor, Duchess of Cambridge, studied English literature at the University.

Ranking

Survey

The University of Edinburgh is one of the world, European and national leading universities. It is one of the Sutton Trust 13, the British counterpart to the U.S. American Ivy League universities, but not the sport but the research strength as well as the rankings of universities have as a base. In addition, the University of Edinburgh belongs to the group of so-called ancient universities, the group of the seven oldest English-language universities in the world.

Worldwide rankings

The QS Top Universities Ranking sees the University of Edinburgh 2011 (2010) world number 20 (22). The Guardian The World's Top 100 Universities ranking, the University of Edinburgh in 2010 was on a world rank 22 ( rank 20 last year). The Academic Ranking of World Universities sees the University of Edinburgh worldwide 54th (2010 ) or on rank 53 ( 2009), Rank 55 (2008). UoE 's results are consistently better than some U.S. Ivy League university (eg, Brown University, Dartmouth College & Rank 65, Rank 151-200 ). Also, compared to the UK- Red -Brick universities the University of Edinburgh presents itself as an elite University is ( University of Birmingham, rank 99; University of Liverpool, rank 101-150, University of Leeds, rank 101-150, University of Sheffield, rank 88; University of Bristol, rank 66; University of Manchester, rank 44). Also, King's College London is ranked number 63 with slightly behind the UoE. As part of the University Ranking by Academic Performance UoE the global number 48 in front of the New York University ( 50) and the German LMU (51 ) will be ranked. The most recent Newsweek ranking sees the University of Edinburgh world number 47. In university ranking of the British newspaper The Times, she took in the overall standings 2006 # 33 worldwide; after the evaluation of the THES 2008 it reached number 23 worldwide and in 2009 ranked 20th worldwide. In the 2011 World University Web Ranking 4icu of the University of Edinburgh Worldwide place went to 17

The Business School of the University is recognized in all relevant business school rankings and is one of the world's leading institutions. The University of Edinburgh Business School ( OAs ) is detected in both the 2010 Economist Ranking Top 100 Business School and in the Financial Times rankings of the Top Global MBA, the MSc Finance programs and the MSc in Management programs. The new MSc in Management is entered according to the Financial Times in 2011 were at initial recognition, world rank 57, is with respect to the initial salary but on a world rank 16 The MSc in Finance & Investment 2011 will be placed on a total of 25 world ranking. Also in the BusinessWeek ranking the OAs is detected.

European rankings

The Guardian The World's Top 100 Universities Ranking sees the UoE in European comparison 7th place as part of the QS rankings, the University of Edinburgh is also 7th in Europe. In university ranking of the British newspaper The Times, she took in the overall standings in 2006 ranked 8th in Europe; after the evaluation of the THES 2008 it reached number 6 in Europe, and in 2009, 5th in Europe.

The Business School will be ranked European Business School ranking by the Financial Times in the Top 75.

National rankings

As part of the RAE 2008, the University of Edinburgh reached after Oxbridge, Manchester and UCL 5th place in terms of research strength. The research strength of the university is the determining factor in the allocation of funds. The THES ranking places the UoE 2010/2011 nationally in the top 5 in terms of reputation, the University of Edinburgh is in the national comparison of 2011 to 6th place in the framework of the QS rankings of UoE in 2011 nationally awarded Rank 6. The University Ranking by Academic Performance sees the University of Edinburgh nationally ranked No. 6, after Oxbridge, ICL, UCL and Manchester.

Other national rankings are often regarded as not representative. Often, the rated criteria are criticized. This results in a discrepancy between international and national rankings. An example, see the Guardian as part of the national rankings Guardian UoE the total number 7 of the universities of the United Kingdom. In World Ranking of the Guardian of 2010, only the University of Edinburgh is located in the UK compared to 6th place The Sunday Times ranking sees the UoE nationally ranked 14th The Complete Universities Ranking sees the UoE 2011 ranked 11th in The Times Good University Guide ranking for 2011, the University of Edinburgh also the 11th place.

As one of 13 national elite universities in the UoE is independent of national rankings internationally to the reputation of a top 10 university.

In the Target School Ranking Highfliers of the University of Edinburgh is ranked 11th to recruiters include Accenture, for example, Barclays, German Bank, Goldman Sachs, Ernst & Young, JP Morgan, UBS, McKinsey & Company, Morgan Stanley, Newton Management, PricewaterhouseCoopers International, and the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Locations

With the expansion of the faculties, the university has distributed its campus on now seven main sites:

• George Square and the surrounding streets in the southern city center is the oldest site; Here are the humanities and social sciences, medicine and law. It is also used for the first year of the student's education in natural sciences and engineering. Near the main building of the EUSA are: the Potterow, Teviot Row House and the Pleasance Societies Centre.
• The Royal ( Dick) School of Veterinary Studies in Summer Hall at the east end of the Meadows with veterinary medicine.
• The Kings Buildings to the south with the majority of scientific schools and the Faculty of Biology, which is a leader in the field of genetics worldwide. The Scottish Agricultural College ( SAC) has here also a location.
• The Faculty of Divinity at New College on the Mound, which is partly used by the Church of Scotland.
• Moray House just off the Royal Mile housed the Moray House Institute for Education until it was purchased around 1998 by the university. The university has Moray House since expanded and fused with his own Sports Institute. The campus of the Moray House is connected to the campus of George Square by the possession of the intervening terrain.
• The 40 million pound expensive medical school in the New Royal Infimary in Little France in the southeast of the city was opened by the Duke of Edinburgh as a joint project of private financiers, local authorities and the University in 2002; It is a modern hospital, animal clinic crane and Research Institute.
• Pollock Halls, on the east by Holyrood Park adjacent, includes half-board accommodation for students especially in the first year of study. Two of the older buildings in Pollock Halls were demolished in 2002, new buildings erected in its place, so that now a total of ten houses are here. Students who are not housed in Pollock Halls, mostly live in private accommodation in Marchmont, Newington, Bruntsfield, New Town and Leith.

Alumni and faculty

Policy

• Gordon Brown ( born 1951 ), Prime Minister
• Robin Cook (1946-2005), Foreign Minister
• Tessa Jowell, Minister of Education
• Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville ( 1742-1811 ), politician
• Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay ( 1842-1929 ), Lord Chancellor
• Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane ( 1856-1928 ), politician
• Jennie Lee (1904-1988), Minister of Culture and founder of the Open University
• James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, Lord Chancellor
• David McLetchie, Chairman of the Scottish Conservatives
• Henry Petty - Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Malcolm Rifkind ( born 1946 ), Minister of Foreign Affairs
• John Russell, 1st Earl Russell ( 1792-1878 ), Prime Minister
• David Steel ( born 1938 ), Chairman of the British Liberal Party and the first president of the Scottish Parliament
• Jim Wallace (born 1954 ), Chairman of the Scottish Liberal Democrats and Deputy First Minister
• Charles Tupper (1821-1915), Prime Minister of Canada
• Mike Synar (1950-1996), U.S. Congressman
• John Witherspoon (1723-1794), signer of the Declaration of Independence
• Benjamin Rush (1745-1813), signer of the Declaration of Independence
• Julius Nyerere (1922-1999), President of Tanzania
• Yun Bo - seon (1897-1990), President of South Korea
• Hastings Banda (1896-1997), President of Malawi

Natural sciences

• Sir Michael Francis Atiyah ( born 1929 ), mathematician
• Charles Glover Barkla (1877-1944), physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
• Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), inventor of the telephone
• Joseph Bell (1837-1911), physician and pioneer of forensic
• Joseph Black (1728-1799), physicist and chemist
• Max Born (1882-1970), mathematician and physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
• David Brewster (1781-1868), Physicist
• Robert Brown (1773-1858), botanist
• Ian Clarke ( born 1977 ), computer
• Charles Darwin (1809-1882), naturalist, author of " Origin of Species "
• James Dewar (1842-1923), chemist and physicist
• Peter Doherty ( born 1940 ), physician, Nobel Prize in Medicine
• John Boyd Dunlop (1840-1921), inventor and founder of the Dunlop Company ( tire manufacturer )
• Klaus Fuchs (1911-1988), Physicist
• Archibald Geikie (1835-1924), geologist
• Andrew Gilbert, physicist and founder of the first British Health Service
• John Scott Haldane (1860-1936), physiologist, founder of methodological holism
• James Hector, geologist
• Peter Higgs ( born 1929 ), physicist, namesake of the Higgs boson
• Charles Hutton, mathematician
• James Hutton (1726-1797), the founder of modern geology.
• Robert Jameson (1774-1854), naturalist and mineralogist
• Fleeming Jenkin (1833-1885), Engineer
• Antoni Jurasz ( surgeon ) ( 1882-1961 )
• George A. Kelly (1905-1967), psychologist
• Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister ( 1827-1912 ), introduced antiseptics into surgery
• John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843), botanist and landscape architect
• Colin Maclaurin (1698-1746), mathematician
• David MacRitchie, archaeologist
• James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Physicist
• Roger Mercer, an archaeologist
• Robin Milner (1934-2010), computer
• James Mirrlees ( b. 1936 ), economist, Nobel Prize in Economics
• Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871), mathematician and logician
• Richard Owen (1804-1892), biologist and paleontologist
• John Playfair (1748-1819), mathematician
• William John Macquorn Rankine (1820-1872), physicist and engineer, founder of thermodynamics
• James Young Simpson (1811-1870), led the chloroform in obstetrics
• Fraser Stoddart (* 1942), Chemist
• Peter Guthrie Tait (1831-1901), Physicist
• Igor Tamm (1895-1971), physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
• Stephen Tweedie, computer
• Dieter Vogt, chemists
• John Walker, naturalist
• Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1873-1956), mathematician
• William Withering (1741-1799), physician

Humanities

• Robert Adam (1728-1792), architect
• Richard Bell ( 1876-1952 ). Arabist
• Roy Bhaskar, science theorist and philosopher
• James Boswell (1740-1795), writer and lawyer
• Thomas Brown, a philosopher
• Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), essayist and historian
• Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), author (Sherlock Holmes)
• J. M. Barrie (1860-1937), author (Peter Pan)
• Adam Ferguson (1723-1816), philosopher and historian
• Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), author and doctor
• Alexander Henderson (1583-1646), theologian and rector of the University
• David Hume (1711-1776), philosopher
• Peter Ladefoged (1925-2006), phonetician
• Sorley Maclean ( MacGill - Eain Somhairle ), Gaelic poet
• Alexander McCall Smith ( born 1948 ), writer and lawyer
• James Mill (1773-1836), historian and philosopher of utilitarian
• Peter Roget, author of the first thesaurus
• Walter Scott (1771-1832), author and poet
• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), author (Dr Jekyll and Mr Hide, Treasure Island )
• Dugald Stewart (1753-1828), philosopher

Other

• John Aikin, physician and author
• John Brown, physician and author
• George Chalmers (1742-1825), antiquarian and political writer
• Henry Thomas Cockburn, Judge
• Daisy Donovan, Actress
• Ian Rankin ( born 1960 ), author
• Benjamin Constant (1767-1830), author and politician
• Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair, scientist and parliamentarian
• Stella Rimington ( born 1935 ), head of MI5
• Piers Sellers ( born 1955 ), astronaut
• Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), author and reformer

David Hume and James Clerk Maxwell applied for teaching positions at the University, but both were rejected.

Rectors

The Lord Rector of Edinburgh University is elected by the students of the university every three years. Rarely, the incumbent is referred to as Lord Rector, common is the simpler name Rector. It is based on the Universities ( Scotland) Act of 1889 of the British Parliament, which provided for the election of a rector for all then-existing Scottish universities. Consequently, only in the four ancient universities (see above) elected rectors, in modern universities do not. The function of the Rector's representative, accordingly, often public figures can be selected.