Professional Doctorates in Scotland, United Kingdom

The Doctor of Dental Surgery is a research based qualification that can be taken either full time or part time. Read more

The MD is a higher degree undertaken by clinically qualified staff normally during their postgraduate medical training. Read more

Develop your leadership and applied research skills in professional practice with a professional doctorate in Art and Design We take a multidisciplinary… Read more

The Engineering Doctorate (EngD) is a four-year doctoral research programme involving a significant taught component. We offer an EngD in Systems Engineering Management, an EngD in Advanced Manufacturing: Technology & Systems; and an EngD in Advanced Manufacturing: Forging and Forming. Read more

Health Psychology can help to address health challenges affecting people’s day to day lives, prevent illness and foster health and well-being. Read more

The French MLitt allows you to research French at postgraduate level and either continue your studies on to a PhD or apply your knowledge across a wide variety of industries internationally. You draw from an incredible history and culture from medieval times to the present day. Read more

If you would like a more flexible research postgraduate degree, the MPhil or MLitt will allow you to choose your research interests and either study towards an PhD or apply your learning within a variety of industries. The postgraduate research programme allows you to contextualise approaches to literature. Read more

Based on the School of Language, Literature, Film and Visual Culture you can study by research for either an MLitt or a MPhil. Read more

This programme allows you to define your research interests and study towards an MPhil. Anthropology is ranked first in Scotland for student satisfaction (NSS). Read more

You can study both an MMus or MPhil by research within the Department of Music. Music at Aberdeen offers you a flourishing research environment in composition, instrumental, electroacoustic, historical, computational and sonic arts and sound studies. Read more

You can study an MRes or an MPhil research postgraduate degree which you can then either continue to PhD or apply your specialist expertise to a number of industry areas. Read more

If you want to take a research postgraduate degree in Geography we offer an MRes and an MSc by research. We draw from interdisciplinary research across social, environmental, geosciences and sustainability challenges from rapid environmental change on contemporary surface processes. Read more

If you want to study a specific area of geology the School of Geosciences offers an MSc by research degree. Read more

The MSc by research degree covers a wide range of areas which range from Astronomy and Engineering to Complex Systems and Mathematical Modelling. Read more

Researchers use behavioural and neuroimaging techniques to understand the relationship between perception and environment among clinical and healthy individuals. Read more