The University of Dundee has been named the UK’s Outstanding Entrepreneurial University of the Year in the 2024 Times Higher Education Awards, held in Birmingham on 28 November.
The judges praised Dundee’s strong entrepreneurial foundation, stating: “Dundee has always had a strong entrepreneurial offer to its students and staff. This has now been cemented by a strategy and a vision, creating an entrepreneurial culture across the whole university. It demonstrates enterprise and entrepreneurship at its core with its programme embracing all, including its community.”
The award follows other recent accolades for Dundee, which was named Innovative & Entrepreneurial University of the Year in the Triple E Awards for Europe in September, and also Scottish University of the Year by the Daily Mail University Guide.
Dr David McBeth, Vice-Principal Enterprise & Economic Transformation, said: "This award highlights our commitment to enterprise and entrepreneurship and our success in creating innovative businesses driven by our staff, students, and alumni. It reflects a decade of effort from our Centre for Entrepreneurship, Research and Innovation Services and those Schools who have embraced the enterprise agenda. My thanks go to everyone who contributed to this shared achievement."
University of Dundee
Nobel Prize winning poet and honorary graduate Seamus Heaney has described the University of Dundee as ‘having its head in the clouds and its feet firmly on the ground.’ The ability to be both aspirational and down-to earth and to blend ground-breaking intellectual achievement with practical applications, has given the University its distinctive character.
