History: Founded in 1495, by 1497 it boasted the first chair of medicine in the English-speaking world. Four Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work carried out at the university. Picturesque and historic Old Aberdeen is now the main University site.
Address: Two sites in north-east Scotland's Aberdeen. Hills, countryside and miles of golden sandy beaches surround it. The medical school is based a mile and a half from the main campus.
Ambience: A 15th-century campus in a historic part of Scotland's bustling third largest city. Aberdeen is known in tourist circles as The Granite City, The Flower of Scotland, and The Silver City by the Golden Sands. Crammed with sparkling granite buildings, cosmopolitan Aberdeen has a thriving economy and buzzing town centre, as well as a beach ruled by stiff North Sea breezes and gutsy seagulls.
Who's the boss? Professor Sir Ian Diamond is principal and vice-chancellor, a former deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Southampton and PhD student at the University of St Andrews.
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