It offers a range of creative courses, including film, graphic design, music, acting, publishing and product design.
Edinburgh Napier University is an internationally award-winning institution that has been twice recognised by the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education (in 2009 and 2015) for its work in timber engineering, sustainable construction and wood science.
Screen Academy Scotland is a ScreenSkills-approved training provider and is a collaboration between Edinburgh Napier University and Edinburgh College of Art (eca). Patrons of the academy include Dame Judi Dench and Brian Cox, with Tilda Swinton an ambassador.
=== Rankings ===
In 2025, Edinburgh Napier ranked 501 – 600th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 801-805th in the QS World University Rankings. It was also rated five stars for teaching, internationalisation and employability by the QS Stars international university rankings.
In the Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2021, Edinburgh Napier was ranked the top modern university in Scotland while the 2020 National Student Survey ranked the institution number one for student satisfaction in Edinburgh.
=== Research and knowledge transfer ===
Edinburgh Napier has a wide range of research centres and institutes including:
Institute for Sustainable Construction
Transport Research Institute
Centre for Distributed Computing, Networking and Security
The Mountain Bike Centre of Scotland
Scottish Centre for the Book
Centre for Timber Engineering
The Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR), a collaboration between Police Scotland, the Scottish Police Authority, and 14 Scottish universities is currently hosted by Edinburgh Napier University.
In September 2018, Edinburgh Napier partnered with Blockpass, a blockchain-based self-sovereign identity protocol, to launch the Blockpass Identity Lab (BIL) - a research lab focused around cryptography and blockchain technology. The lab is intended to lead to the development of various blockchain applications …
