Australasia
The University collaborates with institutions across Australia and New Zealand.
We recently entered a new collaborative agreement to offer joint PhD programmes across a range of academic disciplines with Macquarie University in Sydney.
Edinburgh is also launching a jointly-awarded PhD programme with 13 of the world's leading universities, including the University of Auckland and the University of Melbourne.
Australia
In Australia, the University also has student exchange links with:
- The University of Melbourne
- The University of New South Wales
- The University of Sydney
- The University of Queensland
New Zealand
The City of Dunedin - Gaelic for Edinburgh - is twinned with the City of Edinburgh.
In New Zealand, the University of Edinburgh has student-exchange links with the University of Auckland and Massey University.
New Zealand Studies Collection
The University also hosts the New Zealand Studies Collection, consisting of over 7,000 volumes covering all aspects of New Zealand’s life, history and development, with an emphasis of history, exploration, literature, anthropology and Maori studies.
The collection was presented to the University by the High Commission of New Zealand in the United Kingdom.
Alumni
One of the founding members of the University of Otago in New Zealand was an Edinburgh alumnus, Thomas Burns, who was brother of world-famous poet Robert Burns.
Other notable alumni include Alexander Aitken, one of New Zealand's greatest-ever mathematicians, who read for a PhD at Edinburgh.
This article was published on Sep 25, 2011