Online degrees and awards

22 results

Study part-time, and pay-per-term to spread the cost.

MSc • PgDip • PgCert

Applied Health Sciences

Earn a Masters, Postgraduate Diploma, or Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Health Sciences with our flexible online and on-campus courses. 10% NHS discount.

  • Blended learning
  • January or September
MSc • PgDip • PgCert

Clinical Nutrition

Join an online Nutrition degree accredited by the Association for Nutrition. Study the link between diet and health, and how issues of over and undernutrition affect populations today. 10% discount for NHS staff.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
MSc

Data Science

Go beyond statistics and big data and set yourself apart with additional skills in computational thinking and programming. Join our 100% online Data Science degree.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
LLM • PgDip • PgCert

Dispute Resolution

Enhance your non-court dispute resolution skills with this online Masters accredited by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
MSc • PgDip • PgCert

Energy Economics and Finance

Learn to analyse and understand world energy markets. From oil and gas to renewables, prepare for career success with our expert economists on this flexible degree you can study part-time.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
MSc

Geographical Information Systems

Prepare for a career in the innovative field of Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Build your skills in this essential area of the world’s information infrastructure.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
LLM

International Trade Law

Develop the knowledge to practise trade law or work for governments, international businesses and NGOs. Join this flexible online LLM you can study part-time, with optional Professional Skills training in treaty negotiation.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
MSc • PgDip • PgCert

Leadership in Professional Contexts

Fast-track your career in the public or third sector. Train with experts and join a part-time online MSc you can study while you work.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
MPH

Master of Public Health (MPH)

Join a flexible online Master of Public Health (MPH) you can study part-time and tailor to you. Choose from a wide range of courses to focus your training. 10% discount for NHS staff.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
MSc

Offshore Engineering

Join our accredited online MSc and gain the skills you need to work in a wide variety of roles in the offshore engineering sector, including marine renewables.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
MSc

Oil and Gas Engineering

Join an accredited online Masters degree delivered from the Energy Capital of Europe. Master the skills and technologies you need to pursue a career in the upstream and downstream oil and gas industry.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
LLM

Oil and Gas Law

Our LLM in Oil and Gas Law has been producing outstanding energy lawyers for over a decade. Join the flexible, online version of this LLM and earn your Masters part-time, without taking a career break.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
MSc

Petroleum Engineering

Become a world-class petroleum engineer, ready to take up roles in the upstream oil and gas industry. Join our accredited online MSc in Petroleum Engineering, designed in partnership with industry.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
MSc

Process Safety

Become a qualified process safety engineer, ready to work in any chemical processing sector. Join an IChemE-accredited online degree you can fit around full-time work.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
MSc

Project Management

Learn to lead projects to success in any industry. Gain a fully APM-accredited qualification in project management, studying part-time online.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
PgCert

Psychology in the Workplace

Explore occupational psychology online with UK university psychologists. Choose from a range of online workplace psychology courses and build a graduate qualification tailored to you. 10% discount for NHS staff.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
MSc

Renewable Energy Engineering

Become an engineer in the renewable energy sector with our triple-accredited online MSc. Train online with internationally experienced engineers and learn direct from industry.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
PgCert

Research Methods for Health

Learn to design and carry out healthcare research projects. Study part-time with active health researchers at an award-winning health sciences university. 10% discount for NHS staff.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
MSc

Safety and Reliability Engineering

Become a world-class safety engineer, anywhere, with our accredited online MSc. Train online with internationally experienced safety engineers and learn direct from industry.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
MLitt

Scottish Heritage

Explore the rich history, art and philosophy of Scotland and its people. Access rare archive treasures and award-winning online teaching, with this flexible online Masters.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
MSc

Subsea Engineering

Become a subsea engineer with our accredited online MSc. Train in the fundamental skills and technical knowledge demanded by the subsea sector today.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
PgDip

Theology and Disability

Study religion and disability online with experts in Disability Theology. Join our renowned department of Divinity and Religious Studies for a flexible programme of courses that’s ideal CPD for faith leaders.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
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Online short courses

53 results

Build your CV with courses that fit around full-time work.

Short course

An Introduction to Ethnographic Research Methods

Ethnography is a fascinating way to study people and cultures. Learn the methods ethnographers use to research, analyse and help us understand cultures around the world.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
Short course

Applied Statistics

Join our expert statisticians online and learn to use statistics in your health research or professional practice. 10% discount for NHS staff.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Challenges in Global Nutrition

Join our part-time online nutrition course and learn about nutrition challenges around the world. 10% discount for NHS staff.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Clinical Nutrition for Disease Prevention

Join our nutrition researchers online to explore the link between diet and disease. 10% discount for NHS staff on this advanced nutrition course.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Core Principles of World Trade Organisation Law

Ready yourself for a career in international trade law, in a rapidly changing landscape. Study WTO law online and earn credits towards an LLM with this part-time online law course.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
Short course

Data Science: From Data to Insight

Join our online data science course and train in the latest data science techniques. Learn to use big data to make better business decisions with this flexible short course.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Decommissioning of Offshore Installations: Commercial Aspects

Develop your expertise in the commercial aspects of decommissioning. Study flexibly online with a pioneering energy law university, and earn credits towards an MSc or LLM.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Delivering Successful Projects

Learn what it takes to deliver project success, time after time. Join this online short course and earn credits towards an MSc in Project Management.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Developmental Psychology: Childhood Health and Wellbeing

Learn to understand and improve children’s mental health and wellbeing. Join our online developmental psychology course that fits around full-time work. 10% discount for NHS staff.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Digital Museum Practice

Join our online digital skills course for museum professionals. Build your digital expertise and learn to cultivate digitally confident museum, heritage and cultural spaces.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Energy Conversion and Storage

Study energy conversion and storage online. Learn how we’re taking on the challenge of storing and delivering renewable energy efficiently to communities and businesses.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Engineering Risk and Reliability Analysis

Gain a clear and advanced understanding of risk and reliability analysis, studying online with a team of internationally experienced engineers.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Epidemiology

Learn to understand, measure and tackle disease with this flexible online Epidemiology course you can fit around full-time work. 10% discount for NHS staff.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Management

Join our ECMO course at Scotland’s only respiratory adult ECMO training centre. Gain ECMO certification and learn from practising clinicians and ECMO specialists.

  • Blended learning
  • January or September
Short course

Flow Assurance

Gain a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of fluid flow, vital for pipeline engineers and highly relevant across many sectors of industry.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Governance and Petroleum Developments

Learn how we can develop effective governance in new petroleum provinces across the world. Earn credits towards an LLM with this online course that fits around work.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Health Economics

Boost your skills as a health professional or researcher. Learn about the key concepts in health economics with our online course that fits round full-time work. 10% discount for NHS staff.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Health Informatics

Are you ready for Big Data? Learn to handle the growing volume of data in healthcare, and how we can use it to improve health and wellbeing for all. 10% discount for NHS staff.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Human Factors Engineering

Gain a thorough grounding in Human Factors Engineering, learn to design safer systems for all – and earn credits towards an MSc.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

International Sale of Goods

Study a key area of international trade – when buyer and seller are located in different legal systems. Earn credits towards an LLM with this flexible course that fits around work.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
Short course

Introduction to Data Visualisation with Python

Join our flexible online Python course. Study flexibly and learn to program and visualise data with a university ranked 4th in the UK for Computer Science.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
Short course

Introduction to GIS Tools, Techniques, Cartography and Geovisualisation

Learn about the tools and techniques geoscientists use to collect, analyse, map, and visualise spatial data. Join our online GIS short course and earn credits towards an MSc.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
Short course

Introduction to Global Mental Health

Join our online Global Mental Health course to explore mental health issues, attitudes to mental health, and mental health service provision around the world. 10% discount for NHS staff.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
Short course

Introduction to Offshore Decommissioning

Join our experts online for a short course in Decommissioning. Ideal CPD training, you’ll receive certification from the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board.

  • Online learning
  • January, April, June or October
Short course

Leading and Managing Projects

Join an online project management course that’s part of our online MBA. Learn how to plan and execute a successful project while enhancing your understanding of what project management involves.

  • Online learning
  • January, April, August or October
Short course

Leading Change

Learn to lead positive change in your organisation, whatever your sector, wherever you’re based, with this online Leadership short course.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Legal Principles

Study the basic legal principles of the UK legal system with this accredited online short course, designed for non-lawyers. Earn credits towards an LLM while you study flexibly, part-time.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
Short course

Legislation, Economics and Safety

Advance your career in renewables. Study the legislation, economics and safety issues that impact how the industry works, and earn credits towards a Masters degree.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Machine Learning for Healthcare

Develop data science skills and learn to apply them to healthcare. Join our online health data science course and learn the foundations of machine learning and R programming. 10% NHS discount.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Marine and Wind Energy

Make the move into renewables and study marine and wind energy online with internationally experienced engineers.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace

Investigate how mental health, wellbeing and work are related. Study online with expert psychologists and learn to create a mentally healthy workplace, in the office and remotely. 10% discount for NHS staff.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
Short course

Negotiation Skills

Learn to negotiate better, whatever your work sector. Join our online negotiation course and earn credits towards an LLM as you study part-time.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Nutrition and Health Through the Life Stages

Study the relationship between diet, human development, health and disease at every stage of life. Learn with leaders in nutrition research, part-time online. 10% discount for NHS staff.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Organisational Psychology

Explore human behaviour in the workplace. Study online with business psychology experts and earn credits towards a Masters degree. 10% discount for NHS staff.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
Short course

Pipelines and Soil Mechanics

Advance your engineering career with specialist online training in the design and operation of offshore pipelines. Earn credits towards an MSc.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Process Shutdown, Structural Decommissioning and Disposal

Develop the specialist engineering skills you need in the decommissioning sector. Learn to tackle the technical challenges of the process – and earn credits towards an MSc.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Professional and Clinical Development in Critical Care Nursing

Join our blended learning courses for critical care nurses. Earn the credits you need to meet the National Education requirements to work in critical care.

  • Blended learning
  • January or September
Short course

Project Planning and Control

Learn the tools of successful project planners and controllers on this flexible online short course that’s part of our Masters in Project Management.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Quantitative Methods for Finance

Join our online Quantitative Methods for Finance course and study a focused part of our MSc Finance part-time. Explore a range of quantitative methods and equip yourself with statistical skills for your financial career.

  • Online learning
  • January, April, June or July
Short course

Renewable Energy Integration to Grid

Join our expert engineers online to study the integration of renewable energy to the electricity grid – and earn credits towards an MSc.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Reservoir Engineering

Develop the specialist skills you need to succeed as a reservoir engineer with this focused and flexible online short course.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
Short course

Riser Systems and Hydrodynamics

Develop the specialist skills you need to succeed as a subsea engineer – and earn credits towards an MSc – with this flexible online short course.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Risk Allocation in Oilfield Service Contracts

Study the challenging interface between the oil and gas industry and English legal system. Earn credits towards an LLM with this online short course that’s part of LLM Oil and Gas Law.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Safety Critical Skills in Industry

Safety critical skills, also known as non-technical skills, make work safer and more efficient. Learn how to identify, assess and improve these skills in your industry and workplace. 10% discount for NHS staff.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Scottish Church History: From Columba to Graham

Examine the history of the Christian faith in Scotland, from the mission of Columba, through the crusade of Billy Graham, to the present day.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Scottish Visual History

Engage with the visual history of Scotland across a period of 150 years. Examine Scottish art, how it evolved, what makes it Scottish, and what it has to say about Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

Sustainable Diets and Global Food Systems

Earn credits towards a Masters degree with our online sustainable food systems course. Learn about global food systems with world-leading experts at a UK university. 10% discount for NHS staff.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

The Psychology of Social Bias

Find out how social bias develops and explore social bias in the workplace. Study part-time online with expert psychologists. 10% discount for NHS staff.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
Short course

The Psychology of Wellbeing

Gain a psychological understanding of emotions and behaviour. Join our online psychology short course and discover new ways to improve mental health and wellbeing. 10% discount for NHS staff.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
Short course

The Scottish Diaspora

Explore the stories of the men, women and children who left Scotland’s shores for a new life overseas. Study part-time online with expert academics and researchers.

  • Online learning
  • January
Short course

UAV Remote Sensing, Monitoring and Mapping

Add specialist geospatial skills to your CV. Learn about UAV remote sensing, digital mapping, image processing and softcopy photogrammetry online.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
Short course

Well and Production Engineering

Develop the specialist engineering skills you need for a successful career in the oil and gas sector, and earn credits towards a Masters degree in engineering.

  • Online learning
  • January or September
Short course

Women’s Health in a Global Setting

Join our online women’s health course and study global women’s health issues, from LGBTQ health inequalities to the effects of Covid-19 on women in developing countries. 10% discount for NHS staff.

  • Online learning
  • January
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