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Be The One to earn while you learn with our career enhancing Business and STEM online degree programmes.

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Flexible online degrees

Heriot-Watt University offers a unique online learning experience that enables you to study towards an MBA or MSc. All of our online programmes are academically equivalent to on-campus programmes and are designed for you to study at your own pace, providing flexibility around you and your lifestyle commitments.

Flexible Online Degrees

The online postgraduate degrees have been developed to be flexible, accessible and career-aligned to empower future business leaders

Online MBA, MBA Essentials and MBA with Specialism

An MBA empowers you to achieve your professional goals, whether it be advancing in your current career or transitioning into a new and exciting field. Take the next step and start your fully flexible, online MBA with us today.

Skills Development for Business

Our Business Partnerships team is here to help organisations upskill, retrain and retain staff with professional skills development and internationally recognised qualifications.

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Learn from leading employers, such as IBM, Meta, and Microsoft.

Students and alumni studying online with Edinburgh Business School can now access 500+ professional certificates created by the world’s leading companies, designed to accelerate your career.

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Why choose Heriot-Watt Online?

A pioneer of online learning to professionals for over 20 years, we offer a wide range of specialist programmes.

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Why Heriot-Watt Online

A pioneer of online learning to professionals for over 20 years, we offer a wide range of specialist programmes.

How online learning works

Find out more about the Virtual Learning Environment and the support available to online students.

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