Heriot-Watt University

MSc International Business Management with Advanced Practice

MSc Toxicology

How much of a substance makes it harmful, and by what mechanism? Toxicology investigates the effects of chemicals, drugs and pollutants on living systems, combining laboratory experiment with risk assessment and regulation. Graduates often work in pharmaceuticals, chemical safety, environmental monitoring, forensic laboratories or regulatory science.

MSc Sustainable Geoenergy

Sustainability studies looks at the relationship between human activity and the natural systems that support it — climate, water, land and biodiversity — and at how organisations and communities respond. The approach is deliberately interdisciplinary, mixing science with policy and ethics. Graduates often work in environmental consulting, corporate sustainability, advocacy and public-sector programmes.

MSc Safety Risk and Reliability Engineering (Online)

Fire safety looks at how fires start and spread, and how buildings, systems and people can be protected. Students study combustion and fire dynamics, detection and suppression, evacuation behaviour, materials, and methods for assessing and reducing risk. Graduates often work in fire engineering consultancy, building design, risk assessment or safety management.

MSc Robotics with Industrial Application

Robotics brings together mechanical design, electronics, control and software to build machines that sense and act in the physical world. Students work on motion, perception, autonomy and the algorithms that link them. Graduates often go into automation, manufacturing, autonomous vehicles, medical devices and research.

MSc Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition

Renewable energy policy examines how governments and markets shift electricity, heat and transport away from fossil fuels: subsidies, carbon pricing, grid rules, permitting and public acceptance. Study blends knowledge of energy systems with economics, law and political analysis. Graduates often work in policy, regulation, utilities, consultancy and advocacy.

MSc Project Management

This field covers how complex undertakings get planned, budgeted, staffed and delivered on time, from construction schemes to conferences and festivals. The work involves scheduling, risk assessment, supplier coordination and keeping everyone aligned when plans change. Graduates often work in project offices, agencies, venues and operations teams across many industries.

MSc Marine Renewable Energy

Marine engineering deals with the machinery that drives ships and offshore structures: propulsion, power generation, fuel and cooling systems, and the maintenance that keeps them running at sea. Thermodynamics, mechanics and control are core. Graduates often work in shipping, shipbuilding, offshore energy, port operations, survey and marine consultancy.

MSc Human Resource Management

Human resources focuses on how organisations recruit, develop, reward and retain people, and how workplace culture, employment law and wellbeing affect performance. The subject draws on psychology, employment relations and management practice. Graduates often work in recruitment, learning and development, employee relations, compensation and benefits, and wider people or operations roles.

MSc Global Sustainability Engineering with Industrial Application

Making systems work better is the whole point here — production lines, hospitals, warehouses, supply networks. The work combines mathematics, statistics and modelling with a close look at how people, machines and materials interact. Graduates often go into operations, logistics, quality management, process improvement and manufacturing consultancy.

MSc Engineering Management

Earth systems engineering and management treats climate, water, soil and human infrastructure as coupled systems, and asks how large-scale interventions should be designed, governed and assessed. It joins engineering analysis with risk, ethics and policy. Graduates often work in environmental engineering, sustainability strategy, infrastructure planning and research.

MSc Digital Marketing with Advanced Practice

Advanced practice concerns experienced health professionals who extend their clinical role, taking on assessment, decision-making and the management of complex patients. Study focuses on clinical reasoning, evidence, leadership and safe autonomous working. Graduates often move into senior clinical posts, specialist services, education and roles shaping how care is delivered.

MSc Civil Engineering and Construction Management

Civil engineering covers the design, construction and maintenance of the built environment: buildings, bridges, roads, water supply, drainage and other infrastructure. Mechanics, materials and structural analysis combine with project planning and constant attention to safety and cost. Graduates often work in design consultancies, construction, transport, and water or environmental engineering.

MSc Business Analytics and Consultancy with Advanced Practice

Business analytics turns organisational data into decisions: forecasting demand, measuring what marketing actually achieves, and spotting where operations lose money. The work combines statistics, database querying and modelling with the ability to explain findings to people who are not analysts. Graduates often work as analysts, consultants and decision-support specialists.

MSc Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical engineering applies engineering to medicine and biology, designing devices, imaging systems, prosthetics, biomaterials and the instruments used in diagnosis and treatment. It sits between the laboratory, the clinic and the workshop, so technical rigour and human factors both count. Graduates often work in medical technology, research, hospitals, and clinical or regulatory engineering.

MSc Advanced Sustainability for Brewing and Distilling

Sustainability studies looks at the relationship between human activity and the natural systems that support it — climate, water, land and biodiversity — and at how organisations and communities respond. The approach is deliberately interdisciplinary, mixing science with policy and ethics. Graduates often work in environmental consulting, corporate sustainability, advocacy and public-sector programmes.

MEng Robotics, Autonomous and Interactive Systems

Robotics brings together mechanical design, electronics, control and software to build machines that sense and act in the physical world. Students work on motion, perception, autonomy and the algorithms that link them. Graduates often go into automation, manufacturing, autonomous vehicles, medical devices and research.

MEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Electrical engineering deals with electricity and electronics in all their uses: circuits, signals, power generation and distribution, control systems, communications and embedded devices. Theory, mathematics and laboratory work run together. Graduates often work in energy and power, electronics and semiconductors, telecommunications, automation, transport and product development.

MChem Chemistry with Placement

Chemistry studies matter: what substances are made of, how they react, and how new compounds and materials can be created and analysed. Laboratory technique and careful measurement sit alongside theory from organic, inorganic and physical chemistry. Graduates often work in pharmaceuticals, materials, energy, food and environmental testing, research and teaching.

MArch Architecture

Architecture and design concern the shaping of buildings, interiors and objects, balancing function, structure, cost and the way people actually live and move. Studio projects, drawing, modelling and critique sit alongside history, theory and technical study. Graduates often work in architectural and design practices, planning and development, visualisation and construction-related roles.

MA Postgraduate Interior Architecture and Design

Architecture and design concern the shaping of buildings, interiors and objects, balancing function, structure, cost and the way people actually live and move. Studio projects, drawing, modelling and critique sit alongside history, theory and technical study. Graduates often work in architectural and design practices, planning and development, visualisation and construction-related roles.

MA Postgraduate Fashion and Textiles Design

Design is about shaping objects, images, spaces and experiences so they work well for the people who use them. Studio practice, sketching, prototyping and critique sit alongside research into users, materials and context. Graduates often work in studios and agencies, in-house creative teams, or independently across many industries.

Cert of Higher Education Bachelors Degree Accelerator Foundation Programme (One year)

Education explores how people learn, and how teaching, curriculum, assessment and school systems shape that learning. The subject draws on psychology and sociology while staying close to what happens in classrooms and institutions. Graduates often work in teaching and training, curriculum development, educational research, policy and administration.

BSc (Hons) Technology with Foundation

Technology policy asks how societies should govern what technology makes possible — regulation, standards, innovation and funding, privacy, safety and the uneven distribution of benefits and harms. It combines technical literacy with legal, economic and ethical reasoning. Graduates often work in government and regulators, company policy teams, think tanks, non-profits and research.

BSc (Hons) Science with Foundation

Soil is treated here as a living, physical and chemical system: how it forms, holds water and nutrients, supports plants and stores carbon. The subject mixes fieldwork and laboratory analysis with chemistry, biology and geology. Graduates often work in agriculture and land management, environmental consultancy, contamination assessment, conservation or research.

BSc (Hons) Psychology with Foundation

Psychology studies mind and behaviour: perception, memory, development, personality, mental health and how people act within groups. It is an empirical discipline, so designing research and interpreting evidence sit at its centre. Graduates often work in mental health services, research, education, human resources, user research and social services.

BSc (Hons) Engineering with Foundation

Food engineering applies process engineering to what we eat: heating, cooling, drying, separation, packaging and the design of production lines that keep food safe and consistent at scale. Chemistry, microbiology and plant design all feature. Graduates often work in food and drink manufacturing, equipment design, quality assurance and product development.

BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance with Foundation

Accounting deals with how financial information is recorded, verified and reported so that decisions can be made and organisations held to account. Study covers financial and management accounting, auditing, taxation and reporting rules. Graduates often work in accountancy practice, corporate finance teams, audit, tax, and financial management or analysis.

MSc User Experience Design

Design is about shaping objects, images, spaces and experiences so they work well for the people who use them. Studio practice, sketching, prototyping and critique sit alongside research into users, materials and context. Graduates often work in studios and agencies, in-house creative teams, or independently across many industries.

MSc Software Engineering

At its core, computer science is about computation: algorithms, data structures, programming languages, operating systems and the theory beneath them. Mathematical reasoning and hands-on building reinforce each other throughout. Graduates often become software engineers, or move into data, security, research, product development and technical roles in almost any industry.

MSc Robotics

Robotics brings together mechanical design, electronics, control and software to build machines that sense and act in the physical world. Students work on motion, perception, autonomy and the algorithms that link them. Graduates often go into automation, manufacturing, autonomous vehicles, medical devices and research.

MSc Petroleum Engineering

Chemical engineering scales chemistry up from the flask to the plant, designing the reactors, separation units and control systems that turn raw materials into fuels, medicines, food and materials. Thermodynamics, fluid flow, heat transfer and process safety are core. Graduates often work in energy, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, food processing and environmental engineering.

MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Transportation studies how people and goods move by road, rail, sea and air, and how networks are planned, operated and funded. Coursework can span traffic engineering, logistics, economics and policy, with attention to safety, congestion and emissions. Graduates often work in transport planning, logistics operations, infrastructure projects and public agencies.

MSc International Business Management

Business examines how organisations are created, financed, run and grown, from managing people and money to reading markets and making decisions under uncertainty. Coursework blends analysis with practical judgement. Graduates often move into management, consulting and entrepreneurship, or into specialist roles across finance, operations and marketing.

MSc International Accounting and Finance

Accounting deals with how financial information is recorded, verified and reported so that decisions can be made and organisations held to account. Study covers financial and management accounting, auditing, taxation and reporting rules. Graduates often work in accountancy practice, corporate finance teams, audit, tax, and financial management or analysis.

MSc Intercultural Business Communication

Business examines how organisations are created, financed, run and grown, from managing people and money to reading markets and making decisions under uncertainty. Coursework blends analysis with practical judgement. Graduates often move into management, consulting and entrepreneurship, or into specialist roles across finance, operations and marketing.

MSc Global Sustainability Engineering

Sustainability studies looks at the relationship between human activity and the natural systems that support it — climate, water, land and biodiversity — and at how organisations and communities respond. The approach is deliberately interdisciplinary, mixing science with policy and ethics. Graduates often work in environmental consulting, corporate sustainability, advocacy and public-sector programmes.

MSc Global Environmental Change and Policy

Environmental science studies natural systems and the ways human activity alters them: climate, water, soil, air and ecosystems, along with the pollution and resource pressures that connect them. Fieldwork, laboratory analysis and data modelling are the usual tools. Graduates often work in environmental consultancy, conservation, water and waste management, regulation, research and sustainability roles.

MSc Finance and Management

Finance concerns how money is raised, invested and managed, and how risk and return are priced over time. Topics run from corporate funding decisions and valuation through to markets, portfolios and financial instruments. Graduates often work in corporate finance, banking, investment and asset management, risk analysis and financial planning.

MSc Finance

Finance concerns how money is raised, invested and managed, and how risk and return are priced over time. Topics run from corporate funding decisions and valuation through to markets, portfolios and financial instruments. Graduates often work in corporate finance, banking, investment and asset management, risk analysis and financial planning.

MSc Fashion and Textiles Management

Fibres, yarns and finished cloth are the material of textiles: weaving, knitting, printing, dyeing and finishing, studied as craft and as technical subject. Students build hands-on skill alongside an understanding of fibre properties, production and sustainability. Graduates often work in fashion, interiors, manufacturing, materials development or studio practice.

MSc Economics, Banking and Finance

Economics asks how societies use scarce resources: how prices form, how households and firms decide, and how policy, trade and money shape growth, employment and inequality. Mathematical modelling and statistical evidence run through the subject. Graduates often work in analysis and consultancy, banking, government and international organisations, and research.

MSc Digital Marketing

Marketing studies how organisations understand customers and bring products and services to them, spanning research, branding, pricing, distribution, advertising and digital channels. The work blends creative thinking with data about behaviour. Graduates often work in brand and product management, digital marketing, market research, advertising, and sales or communications.

MSc Design Management

Design is about shaping objects, images, spaces and experiences so they work well for the people who use them. Studio practice, sketching, prototyping and critique sit alongside research into users, materials and context. Graduates often work in studios and agencies, in-house creative teams, or independently across many industries.

MSc Data Science

Data science turns large and messy datasets into something useful, combining statistics, programming and machine learning with the judgement to ask sensible questions. Storage, processing at scale and clear communication of results all matter. Graduates often work as data scientists, analysts or data engineers across technology, finance, health and public services.

MSc Construction Project Management with Industry Placement (2 year)

Civil engineering covers the design, construction and maintenance of the built environment: buildings, bridges, roads, water supply, drainage and other infrastructure. Mechanics, materials and structural analysis combine with project planning and constant attention to safety and cost. Graduates often work in design consultancies, construction, transport, and water or environmental engineering.

MSc Construction Project Management

Civil engineering covers the design, construction and maintenance of the built environment: buildings, bridges, roads, water supply, drainage and other infrastructure. Mechanics, materials and structural analysis combine with project planning and constant attention to safety and cost. Graduates often work in design consultancies, construction, transport, and water or environmental engineering.

MSc Computer Science for Cyber Security

At its core, computer science is about computation: algorithms, data structures, programming languages, operating systems and the theory beneath them. Mathematical reasoning and hands-on building reinforce each other throughout. Graduates often become software engineers, or move into data, security, research, product development and technical roles in almost any industry.

MSc Commercial Management and Quantity Surveying with Industry Placement (2 year)

Civil engineering covers the design, construction and maintenance of the built environment: buildings, bridges, roads, water supply, drainage and other infrastructure. Mechanics, materials and structural analysis combine with project planning and constant attention to safety and cost. Graduates often work in design consultancies, construction, transport, and water or environmental engineering.

MSc Commercial Management and Quantity Surveying

Civil engineering covers the design, construction and maintenance of the built environment: buildings, bridges, roads, water supply, drainage and other infrastructure. Mechanics, materials and structural analysis combine with project planning and constant attention to safety and cost. Graduates often work in design consultancies, construction, transport, and water or environmental engineering.

MSc Business Strategy, Leadership and Change

Business examines how organisations are created, financed, run and grown, from managing people and money to reading markets and making decisions under uncertainty. Coursework blends analysis with practical judgement. Graduates often move into management, consulting and entrepreneurship, or into specialist roles across finance, operations and marketing.

MSc Business Psychology with Human Resource Management

Psychology studies mind and behaviour: perception, memory, development, personality, mental health and how people act within groups. It is an empirical discipline, so designing research and interpreting evidence sit at its centre. Graduates often work in mental health services, research, education, human resources, user research and social services.

MSc Business Psychology

Psychology studies mind and behaviour: perception, memory, development, personality, mental health and how people act within groups. It is an empirical discipline, so designing research and interpreting evidence sit at its centre. Graduates often work in mental health services, research, education, human resources, user research and social services.

MSc Business Analytics and Consultancy

Business examines how organisations are created, financed, run and grown, from managing people and money to reading markets and making decisions under uncertainty. Coursework blends analysis with practical judgement. Graduates often move into management, consulting and entrepreneurship, or into specialist roles across finance, operations and marketing.

MSc Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence studies how machines can perceive, learn, reason and act, covering machine learning, neural networks, language and vision, search and planning, and the ethical questions raised along the way. Mathematics and programming underpin the work. Graduates often work in machine learning engineering, research, data roles, robotics and product development.

MSc Applied Cyber Security

Cyber security is about protecting systems, networks and data from attack, and understanding the people and incentives behind threats. Study covers cryptography, secure design, network defence, incident response and digital forensics, together with the habits of testing and defending real systems. Graduates often work in security operations, penetration testing, risk and governance, and consultancy.

MSc Advanced Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical engineering deals with machines and moving systems: how forces, materials, heat and fluids behave, and how to design and manufacture things that work reliably. Modelling, simulation and laboratory testing support the design process. Graduates often work in manufacturing, automotive and aerospace sectors, energy, robotics, and product design or testing.

MA Interior Architecture and Design

Interior design shapes the inside of buildings — light, materials, circulation, furniture and atmosphere — so that spaces work for the people who use them. Students develop drawing, modelling and specification skills alongside an understanding of construction, accessibility and cost. Graduates often work in design studios, architecture practices, retail, hospitality and exhibition design.

MA Fashion and Textiles Design

Design is about shaping objects, images, spaces and experiences so they work well for the people who use them. Studio practice, sketching, prototyping and critique sit alongside research into users, materials and context. Graduates often work in studios and agencies, in-house creative teams, or independently across many industries.

BA (Hons) Fashion Branding and Promotion

Fashion design covers the making of garments and collections: research and concept development, drawing, pattern cutting, fabric choice and construction. It is about moving an idea from sketch to finished piece while keeping the person who will wear it in mind. Graduates often work in design studios, product development, styling, buying and their own labels.

BA (Hons) Business with Foundation

Business examines how organisations are created, financed, run and grown, from managing people and money to reading markets and making decisions under uncertainty. Coursework blends analysis with practical judgement. Graduates often move into management, consulting and entrepreneurship, or into specialist roles across finance, operations and marketing.