The University of Edinburgh
The University was established by a Royal Charter granted by James VI in 1582. Amongst its most famous alumni it can count David Hume, Charles Darwin and James Hutton, the father of modern geology, as well as novelists including Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Walter Scott and JM Barrie.
Today the University has more than twenty thousand students, from more than 130 countries, and is ranked in the top 30 universities in the world. The 2008 Research Assessment Exercise saw Edinburgh ranked in the top five UK universities, with the two Schools involved in delivering the MSc - Physics & Astronomy and Informatics - both in the top half-dozen institutions in their respective subjects.
Find out more on the University website.