The University of Edinburgh is a public research university founded in 1583, making it one of the oldest universities in the English-speaking world. Located in Scotland’s capital, it is a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities and one of the largest universities in the United Kingdom, with a substantial international student and research community. It offers programmes across the sciences, social sciences, humanities, medicine, and engineering. Economics is taught within the School of Economics, a department within the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, which became an independent school in 2009. The school’s research centres on macroeconomic questions, with particular strengths in labour and credit markets, development, human capital, trade, health and inequality, and theories of individual and group behaviour. It offers undergraduate, MSc and PhD programmes, providing training in core areas of microeconomics (including behavioural economics), macroeconomics and econometrics, and is the base for the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics, the only ESRC-recognised pathway to PhD economics study in Scotland.