Flexible Study

All our degree programmes are flexible and are structured around a simple credit system. Each course has a credit weighting, typically 10, or 20 credits, and you must total 120 credits in each year of study.

Flexibility at pre-Honours level

The University of Edinburgh encourages students to broaden their horizons by stuying a subject which is not directly related to their degree.  This is known the 'outside subject' and there are hundreds of courses to choose from.
Most of our degrees do allow you to take an outside subject for up to 40 credits, see for example the degree structure of the BSc/BEng in Computer Science.

In addition to the option of studying an outside subject, students have the possibility to move between our degrees. For example, you can enroll for BSc in Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering and switch to BSc/BEng in Computer Science.

Flexibility in the Honours years

In the third and fourth year of study you will focus on the main discipline of your degree. Studying with the School of Informatics however means that you have over 70 specialist courses to choose from at honours level.