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A Changing Economy

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A Changing Economy

The world's greatest challenges cross disciplines and span continents. To solve them we need people who see things from different perspectives. At the University of Aberdeen we break conventional business models with a student cohort from over 120 nationalities coming together to seek truth and spark change. We go beyond rigid thinking and traditional approaches, as we continue to drive change in the service of our community, our city, and our world.

Become confident in your ability to become a global business leader or pave your own career path and become an entrepreneur as you learn from faculty pioneering in their fields, network with industry experts and practitioners, work on live business cases and benefit from a thriving and diverse community of students and staff. Join the boundary breakers, risk takers, and business innovators, and help create a more sustainable, more equal economy.

At Aberdeen, you'll find:

  • Experience what life is like for the 325,000 leading banks, corporations and government agencies around the world with our state of the art Bloomberg Finance Lab.
  • Aberdeen is the main European centre for the energy industry, and international accountancy firms, multinational companies and financial services all have offices in the city.
  • We believe that it's essential to have an appreciation of disciplines other than your own - our programmes are designed to be flexible so that students can easily transfer from one programme to another or focus on one specialist area.
  • Law was a founding discipline when the University of Aberdeen was established in 1495. Nowadays we pride ourselves in teaching engaging and academically challenging programmes which meet the needs of business and industry needs today.

More reasons to choose Aberdeen:

  • 5th in the UK of 105 Law Schools for Overall Student Satisfaction (National Student Survey 2022)
  • 81% of our research was classified as "world-leading and internationally excellent' (REF, 2021)
  • The Business School celebrated 100 years of the Jaffrey Chair in 2020. The Jaffrey Chair in Political Economy was set up following an endowment by Sir Thomas, who was one of Aberdeen's most respected businessmen and philanthropists.
  • Our Accountancy and Finance degrees are accredited by accredited by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS), Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).
  • Our Real Estate degree is accredited by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

Rankings and Accreditation

11th in UK for Law

Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025

13th in UK for Economics

Guardian University Guide 2025

8th in UK for Business Management

Guardian University Guide 2025

4th in UK for Accounting and Finance

Guardian University Guide 2025