University of Aberdeen

University of Aberdeen

Aberdeen University is a public research university in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. It is an old university founded in 1495 when William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen, asked Pope Alexander VI, on behalf of James IV, king of Scotland to create King's College. This makes it the third oldest university in Scotland (after the University of St Andrews and the University of Glasgow) and the fifth oldest in the English speaking world. The university today as they formed in 1860 by the merger of King's College (which had always referred to herself as the University of Aberdeen) and Marischal College, a second university founded in 1593 in the city center of Aberdeen as an alternative to the Protestant King's College. Today, the University of Aberdeen is consistently ranked among the 200 best universities in the world and is one of two universities in Aberdeen, the other is the Robert Gordon University.

Emblematic buildings of the university act as symbols of the city of Aberdeen, in particular Mariscal university in the center of the city and the tower of King's College in Old Aberdeen. There are two campus; Campus school of the main King is in Old Aberdeen about two miles north of the city center, around the original area of ​​King's College, although most of the campus buildings were built in the 20th century, during a period of expansion. Forester Hill campus is located next to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and houses the School of Medicine and Dentistry and the School of Medical Sciences.

The University has approximately 13,500 undergraduate students at the doctoral level, including many international students. In addition, the University Center for Lifelong Learning acts as an extension of the university, which offers higher education courses for the local community, even for those without the usual requirements for admission to degree level study. It offers a wide range of disciplines and in 2012 the university offered more than 650 undergraduate programmers.

Five Nobel laureates are associated with the University. Other scholars and graduates of the University include many illustrious figures, including: the physicist James Clerk Maxwell; Thomas Reid, the founder of the Scottish school of common sense and an important figure in the Scottish Enlightenment; philosopher Robert Adamson; educator and philosopher Alexander Bain; and theologian William Robinson Clark.

Established: 1495

Budget: £235 million (2014)

Chancellor: HRH The Duchess of Rothesay

Academic staff: 1,409 (2014)

Administrative staff: 1,951 (2014)

Students: 13,825 (2013/14)

Undergraduates: 10,375 (2013/14)

Postgraduates: 3,450 (2013/14)

Location: Aberdeen, Scotland,United Kingdom

Colours: Burgundy and White Mascot  Angus the Bull

Website: www.abdn.ac.uk