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50 years of leadership It’s been an eventful half century at Heriot-Watt!
1969 1975
Midlothian Council gives the Riccarton estate to the University to form its Edinburgh campus.
Heriot-Watt College becomes a University by Royal Charter.
1966 1966
Heriot-Watt University launches the first Scottish degree courses in Computer Science and Building.
1970
Heriot-Watt introduces Scotland’s first BA (Hons) in Languages for Interpreting and Translating.
Heriot-Watt University opens Scotland’s first Petroleum Engineering Department.
1972
The University launches the first Actuarial Science degree in Scotland.
Nasa launches the Nimbus-5 satellite using remote atmospheric sensing technology developed by physicists at Heriot-Watt – which recorded the first evidence of depletion of the ozone layer.
1973 1971 Heriot-Watt University
The Research Park opens at the Riccarton campus – the first of its kind in Europe.
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The sports centre and first academic buildings open on the Edinburgh campus.
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