About the City of Dundee

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When choosing somewhere to work and live, quality of life is key. Dundee is one of the few locations in the UK which combines the best of both worlds – city facilities on a friendly community scale and easy access to some of the most stunning countryside in Scotland.

Set on the spectacular Tay Estuary, Dundee is a city in a landscape of wild beaches, rolling golf courses, quaint coastal villages and beyond them Scotland’s famous mountains and glens – providing a range of lifestyle choices and house prices unbeaten by other Scottish cities.

The salaries of employees in Dundee currently go further on the property ladder than almost any other city in the UK. Where the average UK house price is six times the average salary, in Dundee the ratio is just under four times salary. The range of properties within commuting distance to the University covers the widest spectrum – from rambling country houses and seaside cottages to handsome town villas and sleek city quay apartments.  Dundee has put enormous effort into the redevelopment of the city centre and its stunning waterfront along the Tay is now being developed. Excellent shopping sits side-by-side with a vibrant cultural quarter – home to Scotland’s award-winning Dundee Rep Theatre and the highly acclaimed Dundee Contemporary Arts which has become a lively social hub and film house as well as a champion of leading edge arts. These are among the closest neighbours to our city centre campus. In addition, Dundee is to become the home of the ‘V&A at Dundee’, a new development which will be housed in an award-winning, iconic building designed by Kengo Kuma.

Dundee  is  a  post-industrial  city  which has  worked  hard  to  reinvent  itself  and  today  the University is a key economic driver for prosperity, particularly in the life sciences and medicine. The University is involved in a range of partnership initiatives including a strong access programme and social, education, cultural, business and voluntary partnerships aimed at raising confidence, skills and achievement. The University has excellent working relationships with the City Council, other local authorities, Scottish Enterprise Tayside (the local economic development company), NHS Tayside and a range of other local and national bodies in Scotland and the UK.

Dundee has become known as the City of Discovery – the place where Captain Scott of the Antarctic’s ship, the RRS Discovery was built and is now permanently berthed. It is a line which serves contemporary Dundee well with its reputation as a strong research led environment. The University is one of the three biggest employers and the ratio of students and university personnel to general population is among the highest in Scotland.

The highest levels of annual sunshine, more green spaces and the purest air quality of any city in Scotland make Dundee a pleasant place to live and comparatively low levels of traffic cut the daily “hassle factor” considerably. An apocryphal tale has it that the local radio station has on occasion warned of traffic jams “causing delays of up to three minutes”.  Dundee is also renowned as a friendly city where it is easy to mix and if your passion lies with the green, Dundee is one of the best places in the world for access to quality and affordable golf. 18 championship golf courses lie within 30 minutes and include St Andrews, Carnoustie and Gleneagles. Within similar reach lie spectacular opportunities for everything from watersports to mountaineering and hillwalking.

Dundee is just a 90 minute drive from 90 per cent of Scotland’s population. Edinburgh is less than an hour away and Glasgow around an hour and a half by road or rail. If London beckons, you can get down for a meeting and back on the same day using Dundee Airport, flying direct to London City. Short check-in times are an extra bonus and crystallise the quality of life enjoyed in this part of the world.

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