500 Years of Research Excellence
The University of Aberdeen is a 500-year-old university which is at the forefront of teaching and research. Its degrees are recognised and well respected worldwide. The university has recently been ranked as the 129th top university in the world in the Times Higher University World rankings. Although the Al-Maktoum College is an independent institution, and based in Dundee, it is very proud to work in academic partnership with the University of Aberdeen.
The College works particularly closely with the University of Aberdeen’s College of Arts & Social Sciences which includes the Schools of Religious Studies, Education, Languages and Literature, Law, Social Sciences, and Aberdeen Business School.
All students at the Al-Maktoum College on the taught Masters and postgraduate research programmes are registered students of the University of Aberdeen. They have full access to the range of facilities that are offered by the University as well as the College’s own facilities in Dundee. All teaching and supervision takes place on the College campus in Dundee.
The University of Aberdeen and the Al-Maktoum College work in close partnership to develop our leading programmes in the Study of Islam and Muslims.
Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
The University of Aberdeen is a research led University with 85% of its academic staff actively engaged in research, and it has been awarded consistently high results in the new national performance measures – the Teaching Quality Assessments (TQA/QAA) and the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).
According to the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise it is among the UK’s top research universities, with 89% of Aberdeen’s research activity recognised as being of international quality, and 55% as world leading or internationally excellent (4* or 3*).
In particular, Theology, Divinity & Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen was ranked as 1st in the UK. This means that all staff and students at the Al-Maktoum College are working with a recognised centre of national and international excellence.
Divinity and Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen was ranked 1st in the UK in the 2008 RAE. This means that all staff and students at the Al-Maktoum College are working with a recognised centre of national and international excellence.
