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Education Futures at The University of Edinburgh - UCAS

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2025 - 2026
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Open days

21May
The University of Edinburgh - Postgraduate Online Learning Open Days
Virtual and digital

Course summary

An innovative, interdisciplinary degree with Edinburgh Futures Institute Education, in all its forms, is essential to a thriving society. How organisations, systems and people learn and change profoundly affects our lives, our surroundings and our futures. This MSc is a bold and innovative programme for those who wish to engage critically with educational possibilities for the future, and understand how educational knowledge, organisations, spaces and relationships can positively shape societies. The Futures Institute's Education Futures programme is designed to respond to the need for creative, critical and experimental thinking across education in schools, universities and colleges, and learning within communities, industries and organisations. Some of the issues you will explore include:

  • mobility
  • politics
  • environmental change
  • culture
  • social justice
  • how data-driven systems for managing and understanding the world influence learning and education
You will explore the ways that knowledge, culture and skills are produced and reproduced, how people, organisations and systems learn, and how this influences global challenges and change. Your studies on this programme will support you to:
  • think ambitiously about the future of education across all sectors
  • gain vital data and creative skills to support your future career
  • apply innovative methods to building a strong future for education and learning
Postgraduate study at the Edinburgh Futures Institute This programme is part of an interconnected portfolio of postgraduate study opportunities at Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI). The Futures Institute supports interdisciplinary teaching, learning and research that is focused on complex global and social challenges. Our programmes are taught by academic experts from many different subject areas. As a Futures Institute student, you should be proactive and motivated. You will be supported to develop creative, critical, and data-informed thinking that cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries. You will have the space to think deeply about questions linked to your own passions and professional goals and will develop a project based on an issue that you care about. As well as knowledge specific to your area of study, studying at Edinburgh Futures Institute will give you the skills and understanding you need to become a creative, confident, and critical citizen in a fast-changing world. These skills include:
  • core data skills
  • data ethics
  • the ability to interrogate issues of global scope using perspectives from across disciplines
  • creative and analytic approaches to knowledge
You can join us regardless of whether you already have experience or practical skills in the use and application of digital data.

Modules

See the University of Edinburgh website for detailed programme information.

Entry requirements

Entry requirements for individual programmes vary, so please check the details for the specific programme you wish to apply for on the University of Edinburgh website. You will also need to meet the University’s language requirements.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

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Education Futures at The University of Edinburgh - UCAS