University of The Highlands and Islands - Organisation and Programmes

Organisation and Programmes

UHI has a number of undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes, most of which can be studied at a range of locations across the area.

In the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, courses such as Honours programmes in Gaelic, BA (Hons) Theological Studies, BA (Hons) Scottish History and BA (Hons) Scottish Cultural Studies all reflect the distinctive nature of the region, its past, present and future. This last course, BA (Hons) Scottish Cultural Studies is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary programme which has been internationally recognised by receiving the 2005 Times Higher Education Supplement Award for Most Imaginative Use of Distance Learning. Other programmes within the Faculty include MLitt Orkney & Shetland Studies, MLitt Highlands & Islands Literature, BSc Audio Engineering, BA Classical Ballet & Dance Performance, BA (Hons) Fine Art, BA (Hons) Popular Music Performance, and many others.

The Faculty of Business and Leisure offers distinctive programmes in Golf Management —Scotland's only degree of this kind—Outdoor Adventure Management—using Lochaber, the UK's Outdoor Capital as a living research laboratory—as well as popular courses in Business, Accounting, Hospitality, Computing, Sports Coaching, and Tourism.

The Faculty of Science & Technology has research in Renewables, Marine Science, Sustainable Rural Development and Environmental Issues. A fully online Honours degree programme is available across the UK from this faculty. The BSc(Hons) Sustainable Rural Development is an example of a multi-disciplinary programme from this Faculty. The programme has professional accreditation from the Institution of Economic Development. The Faculty of Science also offers postgraduate studies, including an MSc in Managing Sustainable Development. This Masters programme also has professional accreditation from the Institution of Economic Development.

The Faculty of Energy, Engineering and Construction offers a range of academic programs up to, and including Masters level. Various subjects are taught at HNC/HND level, including Aircraft Engineering, Architectural Technology, Civil Engineering, Marine Engineering, Computer Aided Draughting, Engineering Systems, Fabrication and Welding and Quantity Surveying. Current degree programs at Bachelors level include BEng(Hons) Aircraft Engineering, BSc Architectural Technology, BEng(Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering, BEng(Hons) Energy Engineering, BEng Mechanical Engineering, BEng(Hons) Mechanical and Energy Engineering and BSc Quantity Surveying. Current Masters level programs are MSc Developing Low Carbon Communities and MSc Sustainable Energy Solutions.

Through its Faculty of Health and Education, UHI has links with the new Centre for Health Sciences located behind Raigmore Hospital. This is being funded by Highlands and Islands Enterprise, the Scottish Executive and Johnson and Johnson. Phase I of this opened in early 2007, phase II and phase III were opened in 2009. The University of Stirling has moved its nursing and midwifery operations from Raigmore Hospital to the CfHS. A BSc Oral Health Science was set up in 2008, and was based on two campuses, the Centre for Health Sciences and Dumfries Dental Centre. In 2011 a third campus was added in Stornoway.