Why Dundee and Why Arts & Social Sciences?

  • Dundee is the only university in the UK that teaches both English and Scottish Law
  • The University graduates more students into professions including Law, Accountancy, Education and Social Work than any other Scottish university
  • Education Courses at the University of Dundee is ranked 4th and Social Work ranked 7th in the UK in The Times Good University Guide 2009.
  • The Graduate School of Natural Resources Law, Policy and Management is supported by an extensive global faculty of the worlds leading natural resources law and policy experts including contacts who work for the World Bank and United Nations.
  • Geography and Environmental Studies were ranked first equal in Scotland with St. Andrews in the 2008 RAE.
  • In the last Teaching Quality Assessment the School of Psychology was judged to provide 'excellent' teaching standards.
Sunday Times"This is one of the finest institutions in Britain where researchers routinely push back the boundaries of knowledge and teachers inspire their charges. The winners are the students lucky enough to study here." Sunday Times Good University Guide 2008

Mission

  • Our aim is to educate, motivate and inspire by example.
  • It is to nurture and unleash creative talent.
  • Through our distinctive mix of disciplines and in our approaches to teaching and learning, allied to rigorous research, our goal is to inform, illuminate and enhance lives and society.
  • By these means, and with our focus on the professions and practitioner training, our aspiration is to provide tomorrow's leaders, in Scotland, the UK and the wider world.