University of Edinburgh College of Science and Engineering

With over 2,000 staff and around 9,000 students, it is one of the largest science and engineering groupings in the UK.

The college is largely located at the King's Buildings campus and consists of the separate schools of: Science has been studied at Edinburgh since the university was established as the 'Tounis College' in 1583.

During the eighteenth century, the university was a key contributor to the Scottish Enlightenment and it educated many of the leading scientists of the time.

In 1785, Joseph Black, Professor of Chemistry and discoverer of carbon dioxide, founded the world's first Chemical Society.

The nineteenth century was a time of huge advances in scientific thinking and technological development.