Multilateral diplomacy, international law, geopolitical risk analysis, and multilateral treaty frameworks designed for aspiring diplomats and NGO directors.

36 months360 credits

BA

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BA (Hons) Law

Core legal principles for practice and public service

3 years full-time360 credits

BA

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BA (Hons) Marketing & Communications

Brand strategy, digital media, and persuasive storytelling

3 years full-time360 credits

BA

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BA (Hons) Sociology & Criminology

Society, inequality, justice, and social change

3 years full-time360 credits

BA

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BA Illustration for Media

Character, sequence, and the same figure in a poster, a thumbnail, and a short animatic. Dublin studios and small publishers are the market. No software vendor certificate. The degree ends with a character pack.

36 months360 credits

BA

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BA Photography and Visual Story

Still photography as story: light, sequence, edit, and the caption that does not rescue a weak frame. Dublin streets and interiors are the subject. The degree ends with a twelve-image sequence and a contact sheet.

36 months360 credits

BA

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BA Production Design

Sets, props, and the drawing a director can stand in. Dublin studio practice is the scale: a room, a corridor, a street corner built inside. You do not receive a software vendor certificate. The degree ends with a design bible for a short film.

36 months360 credits

BA

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BA Screen Acting

Camera acting for short scenes: eyeline, mark, listening, and the self-tape a caster can watch. Dublin is the base. This is not an agent contract. The degree ends with a reel of three scenes you can defend.

36 months360 credits

BA

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BA Songwriting and Production

Writing, arrangement, and a recording a band could learn. Dublin sessions are the reference. You do not get a plugin manufacturer's certificate. The degree ends with four finished songs and the charts.

36 months360 credits

BSc

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BSc (Hons) Accounting & Finance

Professional accounting foundations with finance insight

3 years full-time360 credits

BSc

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BSc (Hons) Computer Science

Undergraduate computing for creative technology

3 years full-time360 credits

BSc

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BSc (Hons) Computer Science & Cloud Systems (Dual Award)

A career-accelerated undergraduate curriculum covering modern software engineering, Kubernetes & cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity protocols, and distributed databases.

BSc (Hons) Cybersecurity

Defend systems, networks, and data from modern threats

3 years full-time360 credits

BSc

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BSc (Hons) Data Analytics

Turn data into decisions with statistics and code

3 years full-time360 credits

BSc

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BSc (Hons) Economics, Finance & Analytics (Dual Award)

Combining classical macroeconomic modeling with econometrics, data analytics, monetary policy analysis, and investment theory.

36 months360 credits

BSc

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BSc (Hons) Environmental Science

Ecology, climate science, and sustainability practice

3 years full-time360 credits

BSc

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BSc (Hons) International Management & Sustainable Business (Dual Award)

An international business and enterprise degree equipping future corporate leaders with ESG strategy, global trade logistics, and cross-border commercial acumen.

36 months360 credits

BSc

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BSc (Hons) Mechanical Engineering

Design, manufacture, and innovate physical systems

3 years full-time360 credits

BSc

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BSc (Hons) Nursing & Health Sciences

Compassionate, evidence-based nursing practice

3 years full-time360 credits

BSc

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BSc (Hons) Psychology

Scientific study of mind, behaviour, and wellbeing

3 years full-time360 credits

BSc

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BSc (Hons) Software Engineering & DevOps (Dual Award)

From architecture patterns and microservices to CI/CD automation pipelines, this dual bachelor prepares production-ready software engineers.

36 months360 credits

Certificate

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Certificate in Assistant Directing

Call sheet, timing, and the floor. For people who want the AD department. Three courses, 18 credits. No production is promised.

9 months18 credits

Certificate

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Certificate in Digital Film & Post-Production

Camera, sound on location, and a cut scene

9 months18 credits

Certificate

Online · Free

Certificate in Foley and Dialogue Edit

A short craft award. Foley for one scene and a dialogue edit. No vendor certificate. Three courses, 18 credits.

9 months18 credits

Certificate

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Certificate in Live Sound

PA systems, monitors, and a show plot

9 months18 credits

Certificate

Online · Free

Certificate in Location Sound

Boom, radio mics, and the report. Exterior Dublin weather is part of the brief. Three courses, 18 credits. No vendor certificate.

9 months18 credits

Certificate

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Certificate in Podcast Production

Format, edit, and the release. Four episodes. Music and clips must be cleared or original. Three courses, 18 credits.

9 months18 credits

Certificate

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Certificate in Sound Engineering

Session craft, editing, and a short mix reel

9 months18 credits

Certificate

Online · Free

Certificate in Studio Management

Bookings, the rate card, and the session report. For people who run rooms. Three courses, 18 credits.

9 months18 credits

Certificate

Online · Free

Certificate in Titles and End Credits

Legal names, the order, and a title that can be read. Three courses, 18 credits.

9 months18 credits

Certificate

Online · Free

Diploma in 2D Animation & Concept Art

Drawing for production, colour scripts, and a short animatic

9 months18 credits

Certificate

Online · Free

Diploma in Game Development

Prototyping, scripting, and a small playable

Doctor of Business Administration

Doctoral research for practising executives

Doctor of Education (EdD)

Scholar-practitioner doctorate for educational transformation

Executive Master of Business Administration

Boardroom strategy for experienced directors and founders

Global Executive MBA (Dual UK/US Pathway)

Designed for high-trajectory executives navigating digital disruption, global supply chain strategy, cross-border corporate finance, and technology innovation.

20 months180 credits

Certificate

Online · Free

Graduate Certificate in AI for Managers

A focused credential for managers who must make decisions about AI without becoming engineers — capability and limits, use-case selection, procurement, risk, and change. Stackable toward the MSc Applied AI for Public Services.

9 months15 credits

Certificate

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Graduate Certificate in Cybersecurity

Defend systems and build a cybersecurity career foundation

9 months15 credits

Certificate

Online · Free

Graduate Certificate in Digital Marketing

Master SEO, social, analytics, and campaign strategy in one term

9 months15 credits

Certificate

Online · Free

Graduate Certificate in ESG Reporting

A practical credential in sustainability disclosure — materiality, data collection, assurance readiness and the main reporting standards. Stackable toward the MSc Finance & Sustainability.

9 months15 credits

Certificate

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Graduate Certificate in Human Resources

Master recruitment, employment law, and people strategy fast

9 months15 credits

Certificate

Online · Free

Graduate Certificate in Project Management

Plan, deliver and lead projects with professional methods

LLB (Hons) Law

Rigorous qualifying legal scholarship, critical advocacy, and modern jurisprudence

3 years full-time360 credits

MA

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LLM Corporate Governance & Compliance

Directors' duties, boards and modern compliance for legal professionals

12 months30 credits

MA

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LLM Education and Qualifications Regulation (UK)

This thirty-credit LLM is for quality directors, in-house education lawyers-adjacent staff, and partnership leads who must read UK qualifications regulation without claiming a desk at Ofqual. University of Brigant teaches Ofqual-facing literacy—conditions of recognition, malpractice, and the difference between a degree and a regulated qualification—beside Scottish SQA-facing language as comparator, not as automatic listing. Edinburgh or tuition-free online, one standard. Not a practising certificate. No regulator logos. Dual-pathway students sit the same thirty-credit construct in Edinburgh and tuition-free online. This LLM is academic literacy, not SQE, not a practising certificate, and not Ofqual employment.

18 months30 credits

MA

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LLM International Commercial Law

Navigate contracts, arbitration, and cross-border regulation

LLM International Trade & Commercial Arbitration

Elite commercial law, WTO trade rules, and international arbitration.

12 months30 credits

MA

Online · Free

LLM UK Data Protection & Information Law

A one-year postgraduate law programme for DPOs, records managers and compliance staff covering UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act, freedom of information, and data-sharing across public and private bodies. Academic literacy, not a practising certificate.

LLM UK Employment and Professional Regulation

This LLM is for HR leads, union officers, in-house counsel-adjacent staff, and regulators’ analysts who must read UK employment and professional-regulation law without pretending the University of Brigant will make them solicitors. Thirty credits, Edinburgh or tuition-free online, one standard. You will work through unfair dismissal, whistleblowing, and fitness-to-practise interfaces as they actually appear in Scottish and UK workplaces—NHS employers, universities, and SMEs—not as a generic international-law LLM with the title swapped. Assessment is identity-checked. The award is academic literacy, not a practising certificate.

MA 3D Animation & Visual Effects

Performance, look development, and a final shot

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA Advertising Film

A brief, a single proposition, and a film under 30 seconds. You also write the one you killed. No agency placement. The project is the film and the killed route.

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA Applied Linguistics

Needs analysis, a small corpus, workplace language, and materials. You do not award an external English test and you do not become a school teacher. The project is a programme for one workplace you can describe.

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA Applied Psychology

Apply psychological science in workplaces and communities

24 months36 credits

MA

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MA Architectural Conservation

The work is tenement stone, timber sash, and the paperwork that sits with a listed building. You learn to record what is there, name the decay, and write a repair that a mason could price. This is conservation practice, not a chartership and not a planning consent. Online critiques use your own photographs. A campus day in Edinburgh is for measuring one stair.

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA Archival Film Restoration

Inspection, repair choices, and the record. You work on material you are allowed to handle, or on provided exercises. The project is one minute restored and the change log. Not a national archive appointment.

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA Audience Development

Who attends, what the price does, which community partner is real, and which data you are allowed to keep. Theatres and galleries in Edinburgh are the scale. The project is an audience plan with a test you could run.

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA British and Scottish Historiography

University of Brigant’s MA British and Scottish Historiography is for people who need to argue about how the past of these islands has been written—Union, empire, class, Gaelic and Scots sources—without a patriotic pageant. Edinburgh campus or tuition-free online, one standard. You will work with historiographical debates and archive literacy, not a creative-writing castle tour. Dual-pathway students get the same reading demand. No national-archive logos. Not QTS. Dual-pathway readers face the same historiographical demand, with lawful digital surrogates where a closed file cannot travel. Extra Gaelic or Scots source work is welcomed where the student has evidence; it is not a decorative header on an English essay.

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA Children's Media

Structure, language, and the consent around a child contributor. You do not become a child-protection officer. The project is a short episode plan and a sample scene.

MA Classical Heritage & World Antiquities

Archaeological curation, Greco-Roman antiquity, and digital heritage preservation

24 months180 credits

MA

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MA Colour and Finish

Colour, titles, and delivery specifications for a short. You learn to match shots and to write the delivery note. No vendor certificate is included. The project is a graded scene plus the delivery report.

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA Comedy Writing and Performance

Joke writing, a five-minute set, and a room. Dublin clubs are the reference, not a booking. The project is a five-minute set and the rewrite after one performance.

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA Costume and Character Design

Character costume for screen and stage at a small budget: research, toile, continuity, and the breakdown. The project is one costume, documented.

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA Creative Writing

Craft fiction, memoir, and narrative non-fiction at degree level

MA Cultural Heritage & Digital Museum Studies

Preserve global heritage through 3D curation, conservation ethics, and digital media

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA Curating

Exhibition proposals at the scale of a single room: loans, condition, interpretation, installation, and a budget that includes the crates. You are not promised a gallery. The project is a proposal with a hanging plan.

MA Directing & Cinematography

Directing, lighting, and a short film or scene study

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA Documentary Producing

Access, consent, schedule, and the cut. Irish and local stories are welcome. You are not promised a broadcaster. The project is a production plan and a short assembly.

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA Editing for Drama

Drama editing: selects, rhythm, and the note from a director. You cut picture. The project is a scene cut two ways, with the reason you prefer one.

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA Education Leadership

Lead schools and learning organisations with evidence and empathy

24 months36 credits

MA

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MA Experimental Film

Form, duration, and the note that says what the film is doing. The project is a film under ten minutes and a 500-word note. No festival acceptance is promised.

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA Gaelic and Scots Academic Communication

University of Brigant’s MA Gaelic and Scots Academic Communication is for people who must write, teach, or assess in and about Scotland’s languages inside universities, colleges, and public bodies. Edinburgh campus or tuition-free online, one academic standard. English remains the administrative language of the award; Gaelic and Scots strands require additional language evidence as stated on the programme page. You will produce academic genres—abstracts, feedback, public-engagement copy—without treating Scots as comic dialect or Gaelic as decoration. No fake language-board logos. Dual-pathway seminars remain one academic standard: identity-checked assessment, the same portfolio demand, and no reduced Gaelic or Scots requirement for online students.

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA Gaelic Broadcasting

Microphone craft, interview, short video, a speech slot in a schedule, and subtitles. You should already speak Gaelic at a working level. The course does not teach the language from the beginning. The project is a ten-minute package with a cue sheet.

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA Global Cultural Heritage & Museum Leadership

Preserving global cultural heritage, museum curation, and site governance.

MA Heritage and Cultural Management

University of Brigant’s MA Heritage and Cultural Management is for people who already juggle condition reports, festival risk, and the politics of who gets to interpret Scotland in a gallery or a close. Based in Edinburgh with a tuition-free online twin, the degree treats heritage as operations: collections care, visitor flow, funding, and community objection—not as a creative-writing course with a castle in the background. You will write a collections or events paper that a trustee can interrogate, read listing and planning interfaces without pretending to be a conservation architect, and keep dual-pathway parity. No invented royal warrants and no fake institutional logos.

MA in Scoring for Film & Visual Media

Orchestral composition, digital scoring, and cinematic audio production

18 months180 credits

MA

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MA In-Post Education Studies (Non-QTS)

This MA is for people already working in schools, colleges, youth work, or learning support who need education studies without a teacher-training fiction. University of Brigant will not sell QTS. Edinburgh campus or tuition-free online, one standard, designed around in-post timetables. You will inquire into curriculum, assessment, and inclusion as a practitioner-researcher, with Scottish and rUK policy literacy, not as a PGCE substitute. Identity-checked assessment. Capstones use your workplace (anonymised) or a documented education setting. Dual pathway means an in-post teacher in the Highlands sits the same demand as an Edinburgh evening attender, without a lighter marking scheme dressed up as ‘flexibility’.

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA International Development & NGO Management

Development theory, programme design, monitoring and evaluation, grant management and the governance of NGOs — for practitioners in the aid and third sector.

MA International Peacebuilding & Global Diplomacy

Resolve geopolitical conflict, mediate peace, and steer multilateral diplomacy

24 months36 credits

MA

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MA International Relations

Understand power, diplomacy, and global governance

MA Legal Studies

A master's in legal method and institutions. It is not a qualifying law degree and does not admit you to practise.

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA Literary Translation

You translate prose into English and write the note that explains the choices. Source languages are the ones you already read. The course does not teach a language from zero. Rights and the translator's contract sit beside the workshop. The project is 4,000 words plus the note.

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA Live Events and Touring

Advance, truck, local crew, and the settlement. Music and spoken shows at Dublin scale. No venue partnership. The project is an advance pack for two rooms.

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA Magazine Practice

This is a newsroom for print and digital magazines: commissioning, editing long copy, rights, and the flatplan. Edinburgh's independent press is the reference, not a placement you are promised. You leave with one issue you edited, including the picture rights.

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA Motion Graphics

Title sequences and information that moves. Readability is the mark, not decoration. No vendor certificate. The project is a 30-second title and a 20-second information film.

18 months36 credits

MA

Online · Free

MA Museum & Gallery Studies

Collections care, interpretation, audience development, funding and governance for museum and gallery professionals. Draws on Edinburgh's museum sector for on-campus students; identical standard online.

24 months36 credits

MA

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MA Museum Learning

Learning teams write workshops, object handling, labels, and the evaluation that shows whether a visit worked. Galleries in Edinburgh are the reference. You are not placed in a national museum. The project is a learning programme for one small gallery.

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA Museum, Archive and Digital Collections

University of Brigant’s MA Museum, Archive and Digital Collections is for people who already live with catalogue backlogs, fragile paper, and the politics of putting Scotland online. Edinburgh campus or tuition-free online, one standard, with library-parity questions built in so distance students are not locked out of licensed content. You will not be trained as a conservator. You will design access, rights, and digital-preservation literacy. No national-collection logos as endorsement. Dual-pathway students must receive lawful digital surrogates or honest statements that a module cannot run without a licence purchase. The MA is not a conservator or ARA ticket.

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA Music Business and Rights

Splits, neighbouring rights as a concept you can explain, sync requests, and a small release plan. Irish practice is the setting. This is not a lawyer's qualification. The project is a release file for one recording.

18 months36 credits

MA

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MA Newsroom Practice

News judgement, interviewing, verification, and the legal checklist a Scottish newsroom uses before publication. This is not a law degree. You produce a week of a small news list with the checks written down.

18 months36 credits

MA

Online · Free

MA Public Relations & Strategic Communications

Reputation, campaigns, internal communication, crisis and measurement — evidence-led communications practice for in-house and agency professionals.

18 months36 credits

MA

Online · Free

MA Publishing & Digital Media

Editorial, production, rights, marketing and data for book and digital publishing — for people entering or advancing in the publishing industry.

18 months36 credits

MA

Online · Free

MA Radio and Audio Documentary

Interview, actuality, and a script for the ear. Dublin speech radio is the craft reference. The project is twenty minutes with a cue sheet.

18 months36 credits

MA

Online · Free

MA Science Communication

A one-year master's for researchers, journalists and museum staff who explain science to the public — covering audience research, editorial practice, misinformation, public engagement and evaluation. Online (tuition-free) or on campus in Edinburgh.

12 months30 credits

MA

Online · Free

MA Showrunner and Series Development

Bible, room, and the episode that survives notes. You practise running a small room. No commission. The project is a bible and one episode outline.

18 months36 credits

MA

Online · Free

MA Sound for Picture

Spotting, effects, and a premix a director can judge. Distinct from scoring and from live sound. The project is a spotted scene and a premix.

18 months36 credits

MA

Online · Free

MA Stage Directing

Rehearsal craft for small rooms: text, company care, design conversations, and the technical rehearsal. Edinburgh's small stages are the scale. You are not promised a festival slot. The project is a director's book another stage manager could follow.

18 months36 credits

MA

Online · Free

MA Television Screenwriting

Series shape, scene craft, notes, and the production constraint that cuts a location. British television is the reference. You are not promised a commission. The project is a bible plus one scene rewritten after notes.

18 months36 credits

MA

Online · Free

MA TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)

Second-language acquisition, materials design, assessment and classroom practice for English-language teachers and teacher trainers working internationally or online.

18 months36 credits

MA

Online · Free

MA Theatre Sound

Theatre sound for a small room: plot, cue, and the operator's script. Dublin rooms are the scale. The project is a plotted show.

Master of Business Administration

An MBA for studios, labels, and creative companies

18 months42 credits

MSc

Online · Free

Master of Public Administration (Scotland)

University of Brigant’s Master of Public Administration (Scotland) is for officers and analysts who must deliver under devolution: local authorities, public bodies, and the interface with reserved UK functions. Thirty-six credits, Edinburgh campus or tuition-free online, one academic standard. You will write committee papers, read budgets as politics, and keep NHS and education interfaces in view without claiming clinical or teacher status. No government logos. Capstones use anonymised public-service files. Dual pathway lets officers who cannot relocate to Edinburgh sit the same identity-checked assessments as campus students. The MPA is not a civil-service appointment.

MBA Digital Health & Healthcare Leadership (Dual Award)

Pioneering transatlantic MBA for clinical leaders, health administrators, and health-tech entrepreneurs driving clinical workflow transformation and telemedicine systems.

MBA Entrepreneurship & Venture Creation (Dual Award)

Built for founders, innovators, and venture builders. Master venture capital financing, growth marketing, tech commercialisation, and global scaling.

MBA Strategy & Operations (Dual Track)

A double-path MBA for managers who set direction and then have to deliver it. Shared general-management core, then pathways in Strategy (competitive analysis, corporate development, transformation) and Operations (process, supply chain, service delivery), ending with a capstone that connects a strategic choice to an operating plan.

MSc Applied AI for Public Services

An intensive one-year master's for civil servants, NHS analysts and local-government officers who must commission, govern and evaluate AI systems in the public sector. Covers machine learning literacy, procurement, algorithmic accountability and service redesign. Delivered online (tuition-free) or on campus in Edinburgh.

MSc Applied Artificial Intelligence & Autonomous Systems (Dual Award)

Deep dive into computer vision, reinforcement learning, autonomous agents, edge computing, and robotics perception systems.

MSc Artificial Intelligence

Build trustworthy intelligent systems from research to production

24 months36 credits

MSc

Online · Free

MSc Aviation Operations

Turnaround, the movement area, passenger disruption, and safety reporting as a written process. This is not a pilot, controller, or engineer licence. Scottish regional flying is the scale. The project is a disrupted-day plan.

MSc Behavioural Science for Policy & Business

Applied behavioural economics and psychology — experimental design, field trials, choice architecture and ethics — for analysts in government, charities and firms who want to test interventions rather than assume them.

18 months36 credits

MSc

Online · Free

MSc Biotechnology & Life Sciences Management

Management for the life-sciences sector — R&D pipelines, IP and licensing, regulatory strategy, manufacturing and commercialisation — for scientists moving into leadership.

24 months36 credits

MSc

Online · Free

MSc Building Pathology

Moisture, movement, services, and the report a client pays for. Scottish housing stock is the main fabric. You do not become a chartered surveyor. The project is a pathology report with a recommendation to open up or not.

MSc Business Analytics

Lead with data. Decide with confidence.

MSc Business Analytics & Decision Science (Dual Award)

Rigorous quantitative decision modeling, predictive econometrics, marketing science, and data engineering for enterprise intelligence.

18 months180 credits

MSc

Online · Free

MSc Central Belt Export and SME Strategy

This MSc is for owner-managers and export leads in the Central Belt who already live with commodity codes, hauliers, and the gap between a trade-mission photograph and a paid invoice. University of Brigant teaches from Edinburgh with a tuition-free online twin so a Falkirk plant manager and an Edinburgh founder sit the same assessments. You will build an export plan that names Incoterms, VAT, and capacity, not a ‘go global’ canvas. No agency logos. Capstones use a real SME file (anonymised if required). Dual-pathway students keep identical export-plan constructs whether they attend in Edinburgh or study tuition-free online around a production shift.

MSc Climate Policy and Just Transition

University of Brigant’s MSc Climate Policy and Just Transition is for people who must hold carbon targets and shipyard or hospital jobs in the same sentence. Edinburgh-based with a tuition-free online twin, it treats Scottish and UK climate policy as distributional politics: who pays, who retrains, and which community is asked to host infrastructure. You will not receive a UN badge. You will write a just-transition briefing that survives contact with a trade union, a local authority, and a treasury official. Dual-pathway assessment is identical. Capstones use named Scottish industrial or public-service settings, not a recycled global-ESG essay.

18 months36 credits

MSc

Online · Free

MSc Clinical Research & Trials Management

Design, coordination and governance of clinical trials — protocol design, GCP, regulatory submissions, data management and safety reporting — for research nurses, coordinators and sponsor staff. Non-clinical award.

24 months36 credits

MSc

Online · Free

MSc Community Energy

Resident meetings, a tariff a scheme can explain, metering complaints, and the grant file. The scale is a block or a village scheme in Scotland, not a national grid plan. The project is an operations manual.

MSc Computer Science

Computing for games, audio tools, and production pipelines

24 months36 credits

MSc

Online · Free

MSc Construction & Infrastructure Project Management

Programme and project delivery for the built environment — procurement, cost, contracts (NEC/JCT literacy), risk and stakeholder management — for site and client-side professionals.

MSc Cybersecurity

Defend organisations in an age of persistent threats

MSc Cybersecurity & Cloud Defense (Dual Award)

Comprehensive dual Master of Science focusing on zero-trust architectures, ethical penetration testing, cloud incident response, and cyber governance.

MSc Cybersecurity & Risk Governance (Dual Track)

A double-path master's for security professionals who must both defend systems and answer to a board. Shared core in security fundamentals, then pathways in Technical Security (architecture, detection, response) and Risk Governance (frameworks, audit, regulation), closing with a capstone that produces a defensible security programme. No offensive-security coursework.

MSc Data for Public Services

A master's in using administrative data to brief a public-service decision. It does not grant access to government systems.

MSc Data Science

Turn data into decisions that matter

MSc Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (Dual Award)

An intensive postgraduate dual programme delivering deep mastery in advanced machine learning, neural networks, distributed big data engineering, and ethical AI systems with validation by world-class UK academics.

MSc Data Science & Product Management (Dual Track)

A double-path master's: a shared analytical core, then two named pathways — Data Science (modelling, ML engineering, experimentation) and Product Management (discovery, roadmapping, metrics) — closing with a dual-track capstone that ships a data-informed product decision. For analysts moving into product and PMs who need real quantitative depth.

24 months42 credits

MSc

Online · Free

MSc Digital Health & Care Technology

Design, procurement, evaluation and safe adoption of digital health tools — apps, remote monitoring, electronic records and AI triage — across health and social care. Non-clinical.

24 months36 credits

MSc

Online · Free

MSc Dual-Pathway Quality and External Examining

University of Brigant built this MSc for quality officers and module leaders who must prove that tuition-free online and Edinburgh campus are the same degree, not a brand with two prices of rigour. You will design assessment parity, write an external-examiner brief, and run an exam board that can survive a student complaint. Ofqual-facing literacy appears where regulated language is used; you are not trained as Ofqual staff. Thirty-six credits, identity-checked assessment, no fake quality-agency logos. You will also write a student-facing explanation of how campus and online sit under one award, because that sentence is where universities usually start to lie.

18 months36 credits

MSc

Online · Free

MSc Economics & Policy

Economic reasoning and causal evidence for policy and markets

MSc Energy Transition & Net-Zero Grid Systems

Net-zero energy systems, smart grids, and clean power engineering.

MSc Energy Transition and Project Economics

University of Brigant’s MSc Energy Transition and Project Economics is for people who already sit next to spreadsheets that decide whether a Scottish wind, heat, or decommissioning package survives contact with the grid and the bank. Taught from Edinburgh with a tuition-free online twin, it treats Contracts for Difference, constraint payments, and community-benefit narratives as project-economics problems, not as a generic ‘renewables MBA’. You will model cashflows under UK policy risk, read a grid-connection queue without pretending to be a power-systems engineer, and write an investment note a director on the Forth can table. Assessment standards are identical on campus and online. The award is academic: it is not CEng and it does not license you to stamp drawings.

MSc Enterprise Risk Management & Crisis Resilience

Executive corporate risk, geopolitical intelligence, and organizational resilience.

MSc Environmental Geosciences & Climate Solutions

Analyze Earth systems, protect groundwater, and pioneer carbon sequestration

24 months36 credits

MSc

Online · Free

MSc Family Firm Succession (Scotland)

University of Brigant’s MSc Family Firm Succession (Scotland) is for next-generation leaders, non-family managing directors, and advisers who must handle ownership, conflict, and continuity in Scottish family enterprises. Edinburgh campus or tuition-free online, one standard. You will map governance, communication, and capability gaps without pretending this degree replaces a solicitor or accountant. Cases include Central Belt manufacturers, rural firms, and Edinburgh professional partnerships. Capstones use anonymised family-firm files. Dual-pathway study keeps one standard for a night-shift successor in Fife and an Edinburgh professional-services daughter. The MSc is not legal or tax advice.

18 months36 credits

MSc

Online · Free

MSc Festival Operations

You treat a festival as a temporary city: gates, power, crews, artists, and the streets around the site. The cases sit in Edinburgh's festival calendar. You do not inherit a venue contract or a city's licence. Seminars run online, with a campus studio week when the cohort is in Edinburgh. The year ends with a week plan, not a slogan about culture.

MSc Finance & Investment

Master markets, valuation, and portfolio strategy

MSc Finance & Sustainability (Dual Track)

A double-path master's pairing corporate finance with sustainability and ESG practice. Shared core in financial analysis and climate literacy, then pathways in Corporate Finance (valuation, capital, risk) and Sustainable Finance (transition risk, ESG disclosure, impact), ending with an integrated investment-and-transition capstone.

24 months42 credits

MSc

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MSc Financial Crime & Compliance

Anti-money-laundering, sanctions, fraud, bribery and the UK regulatory perimeter — for compliance officers, investigators and MLROs in banks, fintechs and professional services.

MSc Financial Services

A postgraduate degree in financial-services operations, client cases, and professional judgement, based in Edinburgh's market context.

MSc Financial Technology

Finance, digital platforms and regulation for the next generation of banking

MSc Financial Technology & Digital Banking (Dual Award)

Explore algorithmic trading, blockchain decentralized finance, digital payments architecture, and regulatory compliance (RegTech) in global financial centres.

MSc Financial Technology & Quantitative Analytics

Pioneer algorithmic finance, quantitative modeling, and next-generation payments

24 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc Food Manufacturing

Shift planning, yield, waste, supplier specifications, and the label claim you can evidence. The plants in mind are Scottish food manufacturers. This is not a food-hygiene licence. The project is a line trial plan with the hold points.

18 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc Game Audio

Implementation, not only a soundtrack. You attach sounds to events, set a mix the dialogue survives, and write the implementation note. No engine vendor certificate. The project is a small scene with the event list.

MSc Game Development & Technical Art

Engine pipelines, technical art, and a shipped prototype

MSc Global Public Health & Epidemiology (Dual Award)

Epidemiological surveillance, biostatistics, health economics, and global health policy leadership for health ministries and international NGOs.

18 months180 credits

MSc

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MSc Global Supply Chain & Smart Logistics (Dual Award)

Design resilient maritime and air supply chains, automate warehouse fulfillment systems, and master procurement risk in dynamic international trade corridors.

18 months180 credits

MSc

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MSc Harbour Management

Harbours on the Scottish coast are the setting: cruise calls, small cargo, pilotage limits, and the dues that pay for the wall. You produce a weekly plan, not a port authority's strategy deck. Online study uses published tide and traffic patterns. Campus time, when offered, is a quay walk with a measuring brief.

18 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc Health Data & Service Management (Dual Track)

A double-path master's for NHS and health-sector staff who work at the seam of analytics and operations. Shared core in health systems and data literacy, then pathways in Health Data (informatics, dashboards, information governance) and Service Management (flow, capacity, improvement), with a capstone on an anonymised service problem. Non-clinical; confers no professional registration.

MSc Health Informatics

Where clinical care meets digital innovation

MSc Health Service Management (UK/NHS)

This MSc is for people who already live with delayed discharge, winter plans, and the gap between a Scottish Government target and a ward that has no staff to meet it. University of Brigant teaches health service management as UK/NHS systems work—integration joint boards, territorial boards, and the politics of money flowing through Edinburgh and the rest of Scotland—not as a clinical conversion course. You will not be trained to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. You will be trained to write a board paper that a non-executive can interrogate, to read a waiting-list without worshipping the dashboard, and to keep one academic standard whether you sit in Edinburgh or study tuition-free online.

MSc Heritage Practice

A master's in caring for heritage sites and explaining them to visitors.

18 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc Hospitality Management

Lead hotels, resorts, and experience brands worldwide

MSc Human Resource Management

People strategy that builds high-performing, fair organisations

MSc Immersive Audio

Spatial mixes, playback systems, and a formatted deliverable

MSc Information Systems Management

Lead enterprise technology where business and systems meet

24 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc Insurance Claims

You learn the file, not the sales pitch: first notice, reserve, evidence, and the complaint that follows a slow decision. The cases are UK personal and small commercial lines. This is not a chartered insurance qualification. Assessment is the file itself.

MSc International Business

Lead firms, markets and teams across borders

24 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc Land Survey

Measured survey for small sites: control, the building, the boundary evidence, and the accuracy statement. You do not become a licensed surveyor by finishing the award. The project is a survey pack for a small site.

MSc Marketing & Brand Management

Build brands and growth systems that compound

18 months36 credits

MSc

Online · Free

MSc North Sea Supply Chain and Decommissioning

This MSc is for supply-chain and commercial staff in the North Sea basin who already live with weather windows, yard slots, and the politics of late-life and decommissioning. University of Brigant teaches from Edinburgh with a tuition-free online twin so Aberdeen-adjacent and Central Belt suppliers sit one standard. You will plan materials, contracts, and community-impact narratives without claiming CEng or an offshore ticket. Capstones use anonymised operator or contractor files. Dual pathway keeps rotation families and Central Belt yard staff on one academic standard. The MSc is not CEng, PE, or an OPITO ticket, and marketing must keep saying so.

MSc Nursing Leadership & Advanced Practice

Lead safe, evidence-based care systems with confidence

24 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc Operational Research & Analytics

Optimisation, simulation, forecasting and decision modelling — the quantitative toolkit for scheduling, logistics, healthcare and public-service planning.

24 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc Organizational Leadership & Change

Lead people and transformations without pausing your career

18 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc Pension Administration

Scheme administration: rules in plain language, contributions, a retirement quote, a transfer, and a member complaint. UK trust schemes are the setting. This is not an actuarial qualification. The project is one member file done properly.

18 months36 credits

MSc

Online · Free

MSc Pharmacy Operations

Dispensing workflow, controlled-drug process, shortages, and error reports. You do not become a pharmacist and you do not supervise dispensing. The project is a branch operations review a superintendent could read.

18 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc Project Management

Deliver complex projects on time, on budget, on scope

MSc Public Health

Improve population health with evidence and policy

24 months36 credits

MSc

Online · Free

MSc Public Health Board CPD Leadership

This MSc is for people who organise continuing professional development and board literacy around population health in UK systems—especially Scottish boards—without pretending the University of Brigant can register them with UKPHR. Edinburgh campus or tuition-free online, one standard. You will design CPD that changes a board’s questions, not a conference that only collects certificates. Non-clinical. Capstones use anonymised board or CPD-programme files. Dual pathway keeps one standard across Edinburgh campus and tuition-free online. The MSc does not confer UKPHR, NMC, or a consultant-in-public-health post, and marketing must keep saying so.

18 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc Public Procurement

Specification, route to market, evaluation, and the contract file afterwards. UK public buying is the setting, including a council-scale purchase. This is not a procurement licence. The project is a tender pack.

MSc Quantitative Finance & Algorithmic Trading

Stochastic calculus, derivative pricing, and algorithmic execution.

24 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc Railway Operations

Timetables, station crowds, engineering possessions, and the passenger message when the plan breaks. The geography is Scotland's central belt. You do not gain a safety-critical licence. The project is a revised Sunday service with the customer information that goes with it.

18 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc Real Estate & Asset Management

Value, invest and manage property assets with institutional discipline

MSc Renewable Energy Engineering

Engineer the transition to clean power

24 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc Social Housing

Housing officers in Scotland work from allocations, rent accounts, and a repairs priority list. You practise that file. The award does not make you a registered social landlord's nominee and it does not speak for a regulator. The project is a patch plan for 40 homes.

18 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc Social Work (Advanced Practice)

Advanced practice for justice, safety and community wellbeing

24 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc Spirits Commerce

The subject is the business of distilled spirits: what a cask costs to lay down, how a warehouse account works, and what an export file must contain. Scotland is the case, including visitor retail. You do not sit an excise officer's exam and you do not represent a distillery. The project is a route-to-market brief for a small bottling.

18 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc Sports Management

Manage clubs, events and commercial sport with professional rigour

18 months36 credits

MSc

Online · Free

MSc Supply Chain & Logistics

Optimise global flows from supplier to customer

MSc Sustainability & ESG Management

Lead credible climate and ESG transformation

18 months36 credits

MSc

Online · Free

MSc Sustainable Energy Engineering & Policy (Dual Award)

Advanced engineering and clean technology leadership covering smart grid architectures, renewable generation, carbon capture economics, and decarbonisation policy.

MSc Sustainable Tourism

A master's on destinations, visitor pressure, and management responses, with Edinburgh and festival cities as cases.

18 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc Technical Art

Look development that a team can repeat: a material, a constraint, and the document. No engine vendor certificate. The project is one material and the note.

18 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc UK Graduate Outcomes and Employability Evidence

This MSc is for careers, planning, and quality staff who must talk about UK Graduate Outcomes without turning a survey into a lie. University of Brigant, Edinburgh, dual pathway: you will read HESA-facing definitions as literacy, design employability evidence that survives audit, and refuse league-table theatre. Tuition-free online or campus, one standard. You are not trained as HESA staff. Capstones use anonymised institutional evidence files. Dual pathway requires careers-support parity: an online student is not an afterthought in an Edinburgh fair. Thirty-six credits, one academic standard, no ranking-body logos.

18 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc UK SME Cyber and ICO-Facing Practice

University of Brigant’s MSc UK SME Cyber and ICO-Facing Practice is for operations leads in small and mid-sized UK firms who already fear a phishing Monday and an ICO letter on Tuesday. Edinburgh or tuition-free online, one standard. You will design proportionate controls, incident logs, and subject-access processes—not a red-team bootcamp and not a CISSP cram. Assessment is identity-checked. No NCSC, ICO, or vendor logos implying endorsement. Capstones use an anonymised SME control file. Dual pathway keeps one academic standard: Edinburgh seminars and tuition-free online students sit the same identity-checked assessments and the same prohibition on offensive cyber coursework.

18 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc Urban Planning & Sustainable Cities

Spatial planning, housing, transport, climate adaptation and the UK planning system — for local-authority planners, developers and community organisations. Academic award, not a licence to practise as a chartered planner.

MSc Urban Sustainability

A master's on compact neighbourhoods, housing, and everyday movement, written for city practitioners.

18 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc User Experience for Games

Playtests, the note, and the change. You do not ship a commercial game. The project is a test of a small scene and the change you made.

MSc Virtual Production

Real-time sets, camera tracking, and a produced scene

18 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc Water Treatment

Source, treatment, sampling, bursts, and the customer warning. Scottish water operations are the context. You do not become an operator by statute. The project is an incident report a team leader could sign.

18 months36 credits

MSc

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MSc Workplace Health Practice

Hazard, adjustment, incident, and how you talk to workers. This is occupational practice for managers and advisers. It is not medicine and it does not register you as a clinician. The project is a workplace health file for one department.

18 months36 credits

Certificate

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PGCert Charity Board Reporting

Management accounts, a risk register, and minutes that record the decision. Scottish charities are the scale. Not an accounting qualification. Three courses, 18 credits.

9 months18 credits

Certificate

Online · Free

PGCert Higher Education Assessment

A short award for people who already teach or train. You design a brief, the criteria, and a moderation note. It is not a teaching qualification and it does not award a fellowship. Three courses, 18 credits.

9 months18 credits

Certificate

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PGCert Identity-Checked Assessment (UK Distance)

This nine-month PGCert is for assessment leads who must prove who sat the exam when the student is in a kitchen in Inverness or a flat in Leith. University of Brigant’s dual pathway makes identity-checked assessment a core operation, not a panic plugin. Fifteen credits, Edinburgh or tuition-free online, same standard. You will design policies that are lawful, accessible, and honest about residual impersonation risk. No vendor lock-in as a learning outcome. No spyware framing. Dual-pathway students on this PGCert sit the same protocol-writing assessments whether they can reach Edinburgh or not. Fifteen credits over nine months.

9 months15 credits

Certificate

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PGCert Information Governance

A short award for records leads. Retention, access requests, and where the records actually sit. UK practice, including a university or a council file. Not a legal qualification. Three courses, 18 credits.

9 months18 credits

Certificate

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PGCert Integrity and Generative AI (UK Dual Pathway)

This nine-month PGCert is for module leaders and academic-conduct officers who must mark work in a world of generative models without pretending detection software is a court. University of Brigant’s dual pathway is the test case: same award in Edinburgh and tuition-free online, same authorship rules. Fifteen credits. You will write policies students can follow, design tasks that still assess the person, and stay Ofqual-facing in language without becoming Ofqual staff. No vendor logos. Dual-pathway students sit the same authorship rules in Edinburgh and tuition-free online. Fifteen credits over nine months. This is not a coding bootcamp and not a detector-vendor certificate.

9 months15 credits

Certificate

Online · Free

PGCert Library Parity and Off-Campus Licences

Dual-pathway higher education is a lie if the online student cannot read the set text. This nine-month PGCert is for librarians and programme leaders who must map licences, walk-in rights, and reading-list reality. University of Brigant, Edinburgh, fifteen credits, campus or tuition-free online, one standard. You will produce a parity dossier that names what a vendor forbids. No publisher or consortium logos as endorsement. Not a chartership. Dual-pathway students on this PGCert audit real licence clauses. Fifteen credits, nine months, Edinburgh or tuition-free online, one standard.

9 months15 credits

Certificate

Online · Free

PGCert Professional Body Liaison Practice

This nine-month PGCert is for partnership and quality staff who write to professional bodies without implying that the University of Brigant has made the student a member. Edinburgh or tuition-free online, fifteen credits, one standard. You will keep liaison logs, map conditions of accreditation as literacy, and refuse logo misuse. Ofqual-facing language appears where qualifications regulation touches PSRBs; you are not Ofqual staff. Capstone is a liaison dossier. Dual-pathway disclosure is mandatory: if a PSRB treats online delivery as a different product, you will say so in the file and in student copy. Fifteen credits, nine months, no borrowed crests.

9 months15 credits

Certificate

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PGCert RQF/SCQF Mapping and Credit Practice

This nine-month PGCert is for registry, partnership, and programme-design staff who must map UK credit frameworks without lying about listing. University of Brigant teaches RQF and SCQF as distinct instruments: level descriptors, volume, and the politics of ‘equivalence’ claims that collapse under audit. Edinburgh campus or tuition-free online, same identity-checked standard. You will produce a mapping file that states residual risk, not a certificate that pretends Brigant can list you on the SCQF database. Fifteen credits. No Ofqual or SCQF Partnership logos.

9 months15 credits

Certificate

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PGCert Storm Continuity and VLE Design

Scottish winters close bridges, cancel trains, and knock power. This nine-month PGCert is for learning-technologists and programme leaders who must keep dual-pathway teaching alive when the Edinburgh campus cannot open. University of Brigant treats VLE design as continuity operations: asynchronous parity, assessment windows, and staff rotas—not a click-training badge. Fifteen credits, campus or tuition-free online, same standard. No LMS vendor logos. You will specify what happens to identity-checked exams and library holds when named storms close the city, without pretending a plugin is a continuity plan.

PhD Business Administration

Doctoral research on creative industries

3–5 years60 credits

PhD

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PhD Computer Science

Push the boundaries of computing research

PhD Data Science

Original research at the frontier of learning, causality and scale

3–5 years60 credits

PhD

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PhD Digital and Dual-Pathway Higher Education

University of Brigant’s PhD Digital and Dual-Pathway Higher Education is for researchers who will produce original work on how one award can be true in Edinburgh rooms and in lawful remote study. Three to four years, sixty credits of structured plus thesis work as specified, examination fee eighty. You will not receive QTS. You will be examined on a thesis that can survive viva—identity-checked, timezone-aware. Supervisors expect Scottish and UK higher-education evidence, Ofqual-facing literacy where relevant, and no quality-agency cosplay.

3–4 years60 credits

PhD

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PhD Education

Original research shaping teaching, policy, and learning science

3–5 years60 credits

PhD

Online · Free

PhD Information Science

Doctoral research at the intersection of data, systems and human behaviour — information retrieval, digital libraries, knowledge organisation, and the governance of information infrastructures.

PhD Public Health

Generate knowledge that improves population health worldwide

3–5 years60 credits

PhD

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PhD Public Policy

Doctoral research in policy design, implementation and evaluation across health, education, climate and economic policy. Coursework in advanced methods and causal inference, then an original dissertation supervised by published faculty.

3–5 years60 credits

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