Abertay is a modern, friendly university in the heart of Dundee, Scotland, with a strong focus on teaching and preparing its graduates for the world of work, combined with excellence in research and knowledge exchange.With roots going back to 1888, Abertay has always responded to the needs of industry, supplying a pipeline of graduate talent to work, lead and innovate across a wide range of sectors.Having forged a reputation as one of the UK's leading tech universities, Abertay is best known for its expertise in video games education and its degrees in this field have been ranked number one in Europe for the last seven consecutive years.From Mental Health Nursing to Civil Engineering, or Business Analytics to Ethical Hacking, Abertay’s three academic schools offer programmes that prepare its students for employment and, in most cases, offer real-world work experience alongside their studies.Abertay has a compact city centre campus right in the heart of Dundee. Abertay’s buildings blend the modern with the historic, with its Edwardian Old College giving a taste of the past and the Kydd Building housing specialist labs such as the Emergent Technology Centre, National Centre for Excellence in Computer Games and Scotland's only industry-standard food science consumer research lab. Abertay’s award-winning and recently-refurbished Bernard King Library is a focal point for students, offering modern learning and collaboration spaces alongside a cafe and social areas.