University of Aberdeen vs University of Edinburgh

The most popular professional degree programme in the world, the MBA is a globally recognised qualification designed to develop your leadership skills, underpinned by practical and theoretical knowledge. It offers you the opportunity to formally recognise your business expertise and take you to a higher level in terms of career progression, earnings potential and job satisfaction. Completing our MBA will make sure that you have the credentials required to compete against the best.

The MBA is focused on the real needs of business and will provide you with an opportunity to develop your understanding of the key knowledge and skills required to succeed in today’s challenging business world when it's going to be harder and harder to move up without a higher-level qualification.

The Full-time MBA suits professionals who:

• Are able to take a year away from work
• Wish to relocate and immerse themselves in a new location
• Prefer to focus efforts and learn best in an intensive environment
• Are motivated by frequent in-person interaction with peers and faculty
• Want to work in a different country and use the opportunity of the graduate visa route into the UK

• Open to graduates from any discipline, this programme does not require business or management study to have completed at undergraduate level
• This programme is for you if you have a minimum of TWO years post-degree work experience

The MSc Artificial Intelligence covers the theoretical underpinning of a wide variety of AI-related techniques including data and text mining, machine learning, reasoning, natural language generation, knowledge representation, and distributed AI systems as well as the technology, techniques, tools, software and methodologies used to apply these underlying theories to real-world problems.

You will learn how to engineer and evaluate AI systems and also engage in debates around the legal and ethical issues involved in the ethics of AI technology. The programme culminates with a research project, which you will undertake under the supervision of a member of staff and can also be undertaken with an external company or organisation. Typical projects include extending, improving or adapting existing AI theories or techniques to solve different problems or comparing competing techniques or tools to solve a particular problem.

The skills and knowledge you will learn on this programme is shaped by the latest research in AI. The University of Aberdeen has over 30 years’ of experience, and a worldwide reputation in AI-related research, focusing on areas such as machine learning, data science, natural language generation, and multi-agent systems. Data and AI is one of five interdisciplinary research priorities for the University of Aberdeen and the department has strong links with the University's Centre for Data and Artificial Intelligence

This MSc is taught at the UK's longest established centre for artificial intelligence, which remains one of the best in the world.

Many of the courses will be taught by internationally known researchers spanning a wide range of areas in artificial intelligence and also drawing on research in related fields such as neuroscience, cognitive science, linguistics, and mathematics. The program aims to give you the fundamental knowledge and practical skills needed to design, build, and apply AI systems in your chosen area of specialisation

For State and Central Universities a minimum of 60% for programmes requiring a 2.2 degree. For Private and Deemed Universities a minimum of 65% for programmes requiring a 2.2 degree.

A UK 2:1 honours degree, or its international equivalent, in informatics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, electrical engineering, linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, physics or psychology.