Facilities & Overview
Now home to over 19,500 students from over 140 countries, we first welcomed 800 students as Napier Technical College in 1964. However our story goes back to the time of John Napier, the brilliant 16th-century mathematician and philosopher from whom we take our name.The University is renamed Edinburgh Napier University. The University’s Building Performance Centre is awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education.The University opens its new £60m state-of-the art Sighthill campus.We launch the £100 million investment campaign Transforming Tomorrow.
A second Queen’s Anniversary Prize is received, this time for internationally acclaimed work in timber engineering, sustainable construction and wood science. Meanwhile, the University is rated top in the UK for adding value to students by the Guardian University Guide 2017, receives five stars for teaching, employability and internationalisation from the prestigious QS Stars rankings, and enters the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, putting us in the top 5% of universities worldwide.