The University of Edinburgh

The Assay Excellence Framework, a assay baronial acclimated by the UK government to activate abutting assay funding, ranked Edinburgh 4th in the UK for assay power. It is ranked 12th in the angel in arts and abstruse by the 2014–15 Times Higher Education Ranking. It is ranked the 15th a lot of accessible university in the angel by the 2013 Global Employability University Ranking. It is ranked as the 6th best university in Europe by the U.S. News' Best Global Universities Ranking. It is a associate of both the Russell Group, and the League of European Assay Universities, a agglomeration of 21 assay universities in Europe. It has the third bigger accolade of any university in the United Kingdom, afterwards the universities of Cambridge and Oxford.

The University of Edinburgh (abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals), founded in 1582, is the sixth-oldest university in the English-speaking angel and one of Scotland's age-old universities. The university is acutely anchored in the bolt of the city, with abounding of the barrio in the acclaimed Old Town accepting to the university.

The University of Edinburgh is ranked 17th in the angel by the 2013–14 and 2014–15 QS rankings.
The university played an important role in accomplished Edinburgh to its acceptability as a accomplished bookish centre during the Age of Enlightenment, and helped accordance the city-limits the appellation of the Athens of the North. Alumni of the university awning some of the aloft abstracts of beat history, including physicist James Clerk Maxwell, naturalist Charles Darwin, philosopher David Hume,

mathematician Thomas Bayes, surgeon Joseph Lister, signatories of the American accepting of adeptness James Wilson, John Witherspoon and Benjamin Rush, artisan Alexander Graham Bell, ancient admiral of Tanzania Julius Nyerere, and a host of acclaimed authors such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, J.M. Barrie and Sir Walter Scott. Associated bodies awning 20 Nobel Prize winners, 2 Turing Accolade winners, 1 Abel Prize winner, 1 Fields Medal winner, 1 Pulitzer Prize winner, 3 Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, 2 currently-sitting UK Supreme Court Justices, and several Olympic gold medallists. It continues to acquire links to the British Royal Family, accepting had the Duke of Edinburgh as its Chancellor from 1953 to 2010 and Princess Anne aback 2011.
Edinburgh receives about 50,000 applications every year, accurate it the fourth a lot of accustomed university in the UK by accumulated of applicants. Entrance is competitive, with 2012–2013 accepting an accepting bulk of 11.5% and activity bulk of 38.6%. Afterwards St Andrews, it is the a lot of difficult university to accession accepting into in Scotland and, 9th all-embracing in the UK.