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School: Edinburgh Futures Institute

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Child Protection Data Futures MSc, PgDip, PgCert online Child Protection Data Futures (Online Learning) MSc, PgDip, PgCert Circular Economy MSc, PgDip, PgCert online Circular Economy (Online Learning) MSc, PgDip, PgCert Creative Industries MSc Cultural Heritage Futures MSc, PgDip (ICL), PgCert online Cultural Heritage Futures (Online Learning) MSc, PgDip (ICL), PgCert Data and Artificial Intelligence Ethics MSc, PgDip online Data and Artificial Intelligence Ethics (Online Learning) MSc, PgCert, PgDip Data, Inequality and Society MSc online Data, Inequality and Society (Online Learning) MSc, PgDip (ICL) Education Futures MSc, PgDip (ICL) online Education Futures (Online Learning) MSc, PgCert Future Governance MSc, PgDip (ICL), PgCert online Future Governance (Online Learning) MSc, PgDip (ICL) Future Infrastructure, Sustainability and Climate Change MSc, PgDip (ICL) online Future Infrastructure, Sustainability and Climate Change (Online Learning) MSc, PgDip (ICL) Narrative Futures: Art, Data, Society MSc, PgDip (ICL) online Narrative Futures: Art, Data, Society (Online Learning) MSc Planetary Health MSc, PgCert online Planetary Health (Online Learning) MSc, PgCert Service Management and Design MSc online Service Management and Design (Online Learning) MSc, PgDip (ICL), PgCert Sustainable Lands and Cities MSc Sustainable Lands and Cities (Online Learning) MSc, PgCert, PgDip

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About the School

Edinburgh Futures Institute is for the inventive, the critical, and the creative. We are for those who embrace new ways of thinking and want an education that helps shape a better future, for themselves and for our world.

Here you will have the chance to explore different and ambitious ways of thinking, collaborating, learning, and working through interdisciplinary, challenge-led programmes of postgraduate study.

Our interdisciplinary approach draws together expertise from across the University of Edinburgh to enable you to learn and connect across many disciplinary fields and areas of knowledge. We collaborate with different industries, organisations, governments, and communities to build a portfolio of innovative, multi-disciplinary, creative and data-skills-focused degree programmes.

Graduates for the future

Edinburgh Futures Institute is part of the diverse, global community of the University of Edinburgh that includes more than 44,000 students studying in more than 150 academic disciplines. Here you will work at the highest academic level alongside some of the most influential people in your field.

In addition to high quality teaching and research, outstanding facilities, and unique links to industry, entrepreneurship and innovation, University of Edinburgh graduates are ranked 24th in the world by employers (QS World University Rankings 2025). This makes Edinburgh an excellent choice for investing in a postgraduate education for the future. Our distinctive programmes, challenge-led and interdisciplinary approach benefit your future employability and development.

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