About the University of Dundee


From its very beginning the University of Dundee was both inspirational and down to earth; traits that remain its fundamental watermark today. The Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney, described the University as an institution ‘with its Head in the clouds and its feet firmly on the ground’. Perhaps the most apt description of the University’s ethos comes from one of its founding fathers, Patrick Geddes, who advised that ‘By creating we think, by living we learn’.


The University’s origins date back over 100 years to the founding of University College Dundee in 1881. The driving force was a rising demand for the extension of liberal education and the advancement of technical instruction. Today the University of Dundee has a strong emphasis on the professions, educating more than 70% of its students into the non-business professions ~ medicine, dentistry, nursing, law and architecture ~ more than any other Scottish university. It also has thriving arts and science colleges.


With women accounting for over 60% of our student population, the University has long since fulfilled and surpassed the earlier vision of Mary Ann Baxter ‘promoting the education of persons of both sexes in the study of science, literature and the fine arts’. That quote translates today to excellence in teaching and research and contributing to the social, economic and cultural life of Scotland 


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