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The School comprises the three Subject Areas of History, Classics and Archaeology together with the Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars, the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
The School is one of the great world centres for the study of the human past.Its research quality in RAE2008 was rated top in Scotland and third in the UK for the number of 'world-leading' and 'internationally excellent researchers'. [Read more about RAE2008 results]
There are 80 academic and administrative staff, 58 honorary professors
and fellows, 300 graduate students and a current undergraduate population
of 1,100 students of whom up to a quarter are international students.
In the Edinburgh University Students Association inaugural teaching awards in session 2008-9, one of the School's Subject Areas was voted the best of 60 disciplines across the institution and around four fifths of active teaching staff were nominated by their students in individual categories for teaching excellence.
During the summer of 2010 the entire School will be co-located in an eight-storey 'A' listed building designed by the distinguished Scottish architect, Sir Robert Rowand Anderson in the nineteenth century (pictured above). The refurbishment, at a cost of £16m, will produce, 'state of the art' facilities for staff, postgraduate and undergraduate students. [Read more about School co-location]
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