This three-year, part-time, fully online programme is jointly offered by the University of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. The Surgical Sciences (Online Learning) MSc programme offers you the unique opportunity to have direct contact with international students, tutors and experts in the different surgical specialities from across the world, widening your understanding of evidence-based surgical and academic surgery practice.

Our part-time MSc Data and Decision Analytics, studied over 24 months, prepares students not only to be able to analyse and digest data but also to translate this into effective decision-making in the age of Big Data. Delivered through a mixture of live online sessions and asynchronous activities, this course combines theoretical foundations with practical hands-on experience.

The Clinical Trials (Online Learning) Transform your expertise and shape the future of healthcare with our MSc Clinical Trials programme. Whether you're looking to advance your career or pivot to a new specialty in clinical trials, this part-time, fully online programme is designed to give you the knowledge and tools you need to succeed in this vital healthcare field.

What makes societies inclusive? How do data practices describe, amplify or confront problems of marginalisation and inequality? This new MSc programme from the Edinburgh Futures Institute brings advanced, cross-disciplinary knowledge together with sectors and experts who are committed to building inclusive and equitable global societies.

Technology and data are transforming governance across the globe. How we apply ethical and innovative use of data and technology to society’s most pressing challenges is key to how we govern our future world. This new MSc programme in the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) explores and analyses the challenges and opportunities that big data brings to the future of democracy.

The MSc Primary Care Ophthalmology is developed in partnership with NHS Education for Scotland (NES) as part of the Scottish Government's directive to empower and enhance the shift of balance of care for cataract, glaucoma, medical retina, emergency and ophthalmic triage from secondary to primary care.

The Epidemiology (Online Learning) MSc, PgCert, PgDip Transform your passion for population health into actionable expertise with the University of Edinburgh's MSc Epidemiology programme. This programme is designed to give you the foundational knowledge and analytical skills necessary for a career in epidemiology. Through learning and applying epidemiological concepts, along with practical statistical training, including the use of R software, this programme prepares the epidemiological leaders of tomorrow.

The MSc Cultural Heritage Futures has been designed to shape the future of the heritage sector. Through this interdisciplinary and challenge-driven programme, you will become creative heritage professionals committed to data-informed innovation with a social purpose.

Education, in all its forms, is essential to a thriving society. How organisations, systems and people learn and change profoundly affects our lives, our surroundings and our futures. This MSc is a bold new programme for those who wish to engage critically with educational possibilities for the future, and understand how educational knowledge, organisations, spaces and relationships can positively shape societies.

The different global crises that the world is facing are interconnected, and many are determined by the way that we have used the earth’s resources, and prioritised development and growth. ‘Planetary Health’ is a new field of study which examines these factors and their consequences, and looks at ways in which redesigning, connecting and leveraging the interdependent health, environment and economic systems could offer new global solutions. The challenge is how we can do this in a socially, economically and environmentally empathetic manner. This interdisciplinary MSc programme has been developed with expertise from across the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science and the College of Science and Engineering.

Our online Clinical Education MSc, PgDip, PgCert (Online Learning) programme takes advantage of our world-renowned expertise to enhance your abilities to teach and assess students in a clinical environment. Our aim is to help you reflect upon, and share thoughts about, your practice while increasing your understanding of applying educational theories and evidence from the literature. As a result, you will learn the knowledge and skills you need to deliver, develop and research high-quality clinical education in your own discipline.

One Health (Online Learning) MSc, PgDip (ICL), PgCert (ICL), and PgProfDev sits at the interface between human, animal and ecosystem health. As such, it is a fast-evolving subject area, well suited to preparing professionals looking to tackle the wide range of intractable and highly complex health challenges of the 21st century. This programme is delivered fully online, making the most of the University’s pioneering, award-winning online learning environments.

The Clinical Animal Behaviour (Online Learning) MSc, PgDip (ICL), PgCert (ICL), PgProfDev This programme provides flexible postgraduate study designed to specifically address the demand for online clinical animal behaviour teaching within a supported learning environment. The programme will utilize an evidence-based approach to explore the potential motivations, management and treatment options for abnormal and/or problem behaviours commonly expressed by companion animal species living within a domestic environment.

The Equine Science (Online Learning) MSc, PgDip (ICL), PgCert (ICL), PgProfDev This programme involves an in-depth scientific approach to managing health and welfare, reproduction, behaviour, nutrition and exercise for horses. Our online programme is the first and only Equine Science programme to be hosted within an international centre of veterinary excellence. It provides students with detailed knowledge and understanding of equine science and its applications and is excellent preparation for enhancing your equine career or future independent research such as a PhD.

Global Food Security and Nutrition (Online Learning) MSc, PgDip (ICL), PgCert (ICL), PgProfDev is concerned with the availability, access, and utilisation of safe, nutritious and sustainable food for all, especially vulnerable groups within society. The challenges related to food are not only the existence of approximately 795 million undernourished people in the world (Food and Agricultural Organization) but also the increasing presence of diet-related, non-communicable diseases (e.g. diabetes and heart disease).