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40 Master's degrees offered by the university

Psychology of Language
This Psychology of Language programme at The University of Edinburgh offers an opportunity for intensive advanced training in the psychology of language focusing on the mental representations and processes that underlie human language use.
Medieval History
This Medieval History programme offered by The University of Edinburgh is ideal for those interested in undertaking a year of further study at master’s level, but it can also be tailored to suit those hoping to pursue advanced doctoral research in medieval history in future.
History
This comprehensive History programme offered by The University of Edinburgh provides you with transferable skills that will be beneficial whatever path you choose.
Economic and Social History
This Economic and Social History programme at The University of Edinburgh provides structured research training while at the same time enabling you to pursue a research project that you design yourself, in consultation with supervisors.
Classics
This Classics programme offered at The University of Edinburgh offers one of the broadest disciplinary approaches anywhere in the UK and beyond.
Contemporary History
This MSc in Contemporary History from The University of Edinburgh allows you to explore such questions critically and analytically while discovering how the recent past shaped the modern world. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of the increasingly global experience of humankind in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

English Literature - Literature and Modernity (1900 to the Present)
The English Literature - Literature and Modernity (1900 to the Present) programme offered by The University of Edinburgh examines a range of literary and theoretical contexts, introducing ways that writing and imagination shape and share in cultural and political processes.
Medical Law and Ethics
Individual and population health is a matter of growing social concern. Achieving good health and delivering effective healthcare demands scientific, medical and policy innovation. Discover more throughout this Medical Law and Ethics programme from The University of Edinburgh.

Comparative Literature
The Comparative Literature programme at The University of Edinburgh draws on world-class teaching and research expertise across literatures, languages and cultures, from Scotland to Asia, Scandinavia to the Middle East. It can also be completed part-time over two years.

Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition
The Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition programme offered by The University of Edinburgh provides an intensive grounding in the philosophy of cognitive science, its methodologies, research questions and techniques of research with an emphasis on issues surrounding situated and embodied cognition.

Medical Law and Ethics (Online Learning)
The Medical Law and Ethics (Online Learning) programme from The University of Edinburgh draws on the expertise and tradition of Edinburgh to deliver an internationally-focused, interdisciplinary programme that combines flexible learning with the most up-to-date teaching on all of the important issues affecting medicine, law and ethics today.

Translation Studies
Translation Studies at The University of Edinburgh will enhance your practical skills in, and theoretical understanding of, translation as an activity. You will have the opportunity to focus on two languages in addition to English, making the University of Edinburgh the ideal place to study translation.

International Animal Welfare, Ethics and Law (Online Learning)
The overall objective of this International Animal Welfare, Ethics and Law (Online Learning) programme at The University of Edinburgh is to provide knowledge and an understanding of animal welfare science, with a focus on the international issues arising from animal use in all its forms.
Buddhist Studies
The Buddhist Studies programme from The University of Edinburgh offers a truly multidisciplinary foundation in the field.

Intermediality - Literature, Film and the Arts in Dialogue
The one-year Intermediality - Literature, Film and the Arts in Dialogue programme from The University of Edinburgh draws on world-class teaching and research expertise across media, from literature to film, music, painting, photography and visual culture more widely.
Intellectual History
Intellectual History programme at The University of Edinburgh will allow you to engage with some of the principal methodologies of intellectual history, such as the ‘Cambridge School’ and global intellectual history
TESOL
Suitable for both experienced teachers and newcomers to the field, this TESOL programme offered by The University of Edinburgh is designed for students who plan to teach English as a second, foreign or additional language (ESL, EFL, EAL) in the UK or internationally.

Linguistics
The Linguistics programme offered by The University of Edinburgh gives you the intellectual and practical skills you need to engage in linguistics research, either by itself, or as part of cross-disciplinary research.

Speech and Language Processing
The Speech and Language Processing programme from The University of Edinburgh offers an exciting opportunity to learn from world leaders in both informatics and linguistics.

English Literature - Literature and Society - Enlightenment, Romantic and Victorian
The English Literature - Literature and Society - Enlightenment, Romantic and Victorian programme offered by The University of Edinburgh gives you the opportunity to engage with a range of topics in literary study, centred on the literary history of England, Scotland and Ireland in the 18th and 19th centuries.