GCU University | Online Course GCU :A postgraduate qualification is an investment in your future, a route to increasing your knowledge and earning potential, and a path to a more rewarding career.
We have more than 70 courses and a variety of flexible study options to choose from.
You’ll gain specialist knowledge and skills, which will help you stand out from the crowd as an expert in your field. It is also an investment in your future. Postgraduates earn, on average, 18% more than those with only undergraduate qualifications. (Higher Education Policy Institute 2020).
The Glasgow School for Business and Society offers a wide range of Two Year Masters with Professional Practice. These exciting courses give you the opportunity to undertake one of our traditional One Year Masters courses with an additional element of professional practice taking place in year two. This will include a paid or unpaid placement over two trimesters which will give you the chance to develop your knowledge and professional skills through extended work experience in the UK or elsewhere.
The school is vocationally-focused and with the many connections with industry, professional and third sectors, will fully prepare you for and support you in finding your own placement.
GCU is Scotland’s leading provider of Graduate Apprenticeships. We work collaboratively with over 300 employers across Scotland. We recognise the needs of early-career individuals, and the value of applied knowledge and experience in working professionals seeking to catch up on their academic credentials.
You must be living and working in Scotland in the same field as the Graduate Apprenticeship course you are applying to.
Our Graduate Apprenticeship courses allow you to transform your career prospects and contribute to your organisation’s growth. We support you through flexible learning options, one-to-one mentoring and a three-way liaison between the University, apprentice and workplace. GCU’s Graduate Apprenticeships build your skills for the job you have now and develop skills for the career you aspire to.
For employers, retaining, upskilling or recruiting staff into a Graduate Apprenticeship allows you to fill skill gaps whilst developing a strong workforce. All employers in Scotland can support an apprentice through this exciting journey.
The ability to draw insight and make decisions from data is critical to healthcare providers, government organisations, social media companies, the financial and education sectors, and the entertainment industry, among others.
The BSc (Hons) AI and Data Science (Graduate Apprenticeship) will equip you with the knowledge and skills required to develop a career that uses societally beneficial data science and artificial intelligence solutions to real-world problems like climate change, financial services, or sustainable development.
Informed by both academic research and industrial interaction feedback, this course will help you to learn how to manage, explore, analyse, understand and visualise image, text, or numerical data and apply these skills to challenges in areas such as autonomous vehicles, financial decision making, health diagnosis, or robotics.
As well as technical skills such as software development and machine learning, you will also develop the creative thinking skills required for a career developing novel solutions to the key societal and environmental challenges affecting the world today.
The Graduate Apprenticeship pathway also has an extended focus on data analysis, probability and statistics, maths for data science and data protection and ethics. All skills that you can immediately apply to your role in industry as you broaden your knowledge and experience.
Regular events are also organised with previous students and industrial experts to broaden your awareness of industry knowledge and expertise.
Discretionary Funds are now open for Trimester C, for continuing students applying for the 1st or 2nd time. Due to limited funds we cannot accept applications from 3rd time applicants. Priority will be given to first time applicants.
The Nursing and Paramedic Discretionary Fund is now closed for academic year 2023/24, as funds are now exhausted.
The Discretionary Fund is available to help with study and living costs if you are struggling financially. There are certain eligibility criteria that need to be met in order to apply.
Students who are experiencing particular financial hardship should make an appointment to speak to a Funding Advisor.
Applications usually take three to four weeks to fully process. Please note that applications that are not fully completed, or missing relevant documentation, will be moved to the end of the queue and this will result in a significant delay of possibly weeks in processing your application.
Please check the Documents you may need to have ready before applying to ensure you upload all the required documentation with your application.
The MSc Applied Instrumentation and Control offers graduates a highly focused skillset that’s valuable to an extremely wide range of industries – any business that benefits from the measurement of process variables and environmental factors. For instance, renewable and conventional energy generation, water, transport, medical and environmental instrumentation, chemical, food and pharmaceutical engineering, mining and oil and gas production.
Across these industries, you might focus on data analytics and system health management, computer-controlled instrumentation systems, process instrumentation, technical management and sales, process control and automation, sensor development and manufacturing, industrial development, or test and measurement systems.
You might also pursue a career with a company that designs and manufactures measurement systems.
Students and new graduates are paired with an experienced GCU alumni mentor who provides industry advice, guidance and support to help their mentee in their next career steps. An incredible 2000 graduates have volunteered so far as mentors, with over 1500 students having completed or underway with the programme, of which 2 in 3 have secured employment or further study.
Become a career mentor for GCU students and make a difference
GCU’s award-winning MINT (Mentoring, Internships, Networking and Talks) Programme supports final year students to help enhance their employability and increase their chances of gaining employment at the earliest possible opportunity. Launched in 2020, the Mentoring arm of MINT has supported over 1,500 final year students to date thanks to the incredible support from our alumni community.
Many of our alumni have generously volunteered as Career Mentors to these final year students, giving advice, support and a helping hand to guide them through those crucial next steps into employment. Thank you sincerely to those of you who have volunteered in previous years, and we hope you are able to join us again this year.
The 2024 Career Mentoring Programme will be running from March to August 2024. If you would like to register your interest to be a mentor, please complete the form in the link below. Thank you so much for your support.
This is a six-month programme running from March to August inclusive.
You will be hand-matched by our team to mentor a final-year GCU student. All mentors and mentees are asked for information on industry, degree, and other skills and preferences so we will take all criteria into consideration when matching and do so as closely as possible.
We suggest one virtual or in-person meeting per month. However, this can be flexible to suit you and your mentee’s needs.
You and your mentee can set out your objectives, and with our guidance, create a meeting structure and content to suit you both.
Our mentees will undertake an induction programme prior to your mentoring relationship commencing. They understand you are there to provide guidance on general workplace skills, and if appropriate, more specific to your industry. However, there is no expectation to provide placements, internships or help with University work.
Glasgow Caledonian – the largest and leading modern university in Scotland – is a vibrant, values-led university with campuses in the heart of Glasgow and London. With a strong commitment to high quality education and research which supports the communities we serve, we have strong partnerships with employers to ensure our students get the careers they dream of and deserve.
We are the only Scottish university with EcoCampus Platinum accreditation and we are 1st in Scotland for sustainability (People and Planet University League 2023/24).
We are a Top 40 UK University in the Guardian University Guide and the UK’s 2nd top performing modern university in the Daily Mail Guide
We offer a wide selection of affordable postgraduate degree courses
91% of our health research is classified as world-leading or internationally excellent (REF 2021)
GCU has denied any wrongdoing and made a number of attempts to push back against the government’s characterization of its doctoral programs. The Education Department noted, though, that the college didn’t dispute the government’s determination that “98% of students enrolled in certain doctoral programs had to pay more than GCU’s advertised cost.”
Weeks before it was slapped with its record fine, GCU released a statement claiming that the government was “coordinating efforts to unjustly target GCU.” The university alleged that the investigation into its tuition was in retaliation for a 2021 lawsuit filed against the Education Department for categorizing it as a for-profit university, which GCU has pushed back against. While the IRS does consider GCU to be nonprofit for tax purposes, the Education Department still classifies it as a for-profit school in relation to financial aid. That lawsuit is ongoing, and federal officials maintain that these issues are “entirely unrelated” and that GCU’s loss of its nonprofit status had nothing to do with the fine.
GCU President Brian Mueller also criticized the Education Department’s investigation prior to the fine, arguing that his university actually provides more financial disclosure than is legally required, according to The Arizona Republic. Mueller also said GCU’s financial disclosures have previously been upheld in court.