Combined Studies

Combined Studies provides you the unique opportunity to design your own bespoke degree, depending on your specific interests and career aspirations.

Why study Combined Studies?

The programme is a flexible, broad-based interdiscilinary degree programme, which can be designed to suit your individualised educational needs. Combined Studies allows you to tailor your degree to match your interests, ambitions and strengths and can be studied on a full-time or part-time basis. This makes it the ideal programme for students wishing to keep their studies broad and study a wide range of subjects, for those wishing to focus on a specialist mix of two disparate subjects relating to niche career goals, or for those with time commitments (such as professional athletes and carers) who are looking to fit their learning around their busy schedules.

Heriot-Watt is a leading University in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, business, and social sciences, and this programme allows you to tailor your learning across schools, learn from experts in various fields, and adopt a multidisciplinary approach. This will ensure you graduate with a flexible and versatile skillset of transferable and practical skills and knowledge, setting you up well for life after gradation. Due to the breadth of learning, students on our Combined Studies programme outperfom students on discipline-specific undergraduate degrees on pass rate, graduate outcomes, and level of degree clasification.

Throughout your studies you'll be fully supported by the director of studies to plan your learing accordingly and help you choose the right set of subjects to meet your individual learning goals. Based on your course selection, Combined Studies can be taught across our global campuses in Edinburgh, Dubai and Malaysia - allowing you to study and see the world at the same time.