Heriot-Watt is a university for business and industry at the forefront of research and teaching innovation. With campuses in Edinburgh, the Scottish Borders and Dubai, Heriot-Watt provides a top quality living and working environment. Their international focus creates a very cosmopolitan environment with more than a quarter of their on-campus students in Scotland coming from outside the UK. Heriot-Watt is one of the UK's leading research institutions having been rated at the highest level by the national review body, the RAE, and they are recognised internationally as a centre for high calibre research. More than a quarter of their 9000 on-campus students in Scotland are from outside the UK and this international focus is also demonstrated by the 15,000 students worldwide studying on their international programmes. Heriot-Watt University is one of the UK's leading research institutions having been rated at the highest level by their national review body, the RAE. They have an ambitious and decisive strategy to set their direction to 2015 and to place Heriot-Watt University at the forefront of research and research-led education in the UK and internationally. Its intention is to set the agenda to reshape the University and, in so doing, to grow their academic base by 50% in ten years.
