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Combined Studies

Heriot-Watt University

Venues

Edinburgh Campus

Content

The BSc (Hons) Combined Studies provides you the unique opportunity to design your own bespoke degree, depending on your specific interests and career aspirations. The programme provides flexibility and a fully customisable experience, allowing you to create a bespoke, academically ambitious degree based upon your individual interests, strengths, and career ambitions.

The multidisciplinary approach of the programme means that you’ll gain a flexible and versatile skillset of transferable and practical skills and knowledge, to set you up for life after graduation. Due to the breadth of learning, students studying combined studies outperformed students on the discipline-specific undergraduate degrees on pass rate, graduate outcomes, and level of degree classification.

The subjects available for BSc Combined Studies at the Edinburgh Campus are: Actuarial Science; Biological Sciences; Building Engineering; Chemical Engineering; Chemistry; Civil Engineering; Computer Science; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Information Systems; Mathematics; Mechanical Engineering; Physics; Statistics.

You can also combine the above subjects with one of the following: Accountancy and Finance; Economics; Languages; Management.

Entry Requirements

2026 entry requirements:
Standard entry: 4 Highers AABB including Maths at B and a relevant science subject at A plus English at National 5.

Widening access entry: 4 Highers BBBC including Maths and a relevant science subject at BB plus English at National 5.

Start Date

September

Qualification

Degree

Award

BSc Hons

Study Method

Full time

UCAS Code

CFG0

Course Length

4 years

Faculty

Combined Studies

Department

Combined Studies

SCQF Level

10

Website

www.hw.ac.uk

Career Area

Construction

Career Sectors