Who are some of the famous graduates of Heriot Watt University?

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    Heriot Watt University consists of more than 159,000 alumni members in 190 countries in the world. Some of the notable ones are as follows:

    • Graham Watson (Politician)

    • Kirsty Smith (Football Player)

    • Nivetha Pethuraj (Indian Actress)

    • John Thomson (Scottish photographer, geographer, and traveller)

    • Jock Clear (Engineer)

    • Ruaridh Mollica (Actor) and many more.

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Heriot-Watt University graduates are currently working under top industries like Sales, Education, Operations, Finance, Business Development, Information Technology and Engineering. Some of the top employers for these graduates are as follows:

  • EY

  • Deloitte

  • AECOM

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Yes, Nivetha Pethuraj is an Indian actress, known for her Tamil and Telugu films is a graduate of Heriot Watt. She was crowned with Miss India UAE in 2015 and became a finalist in Miss India Worldwide 2015.

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Heriot Watt University offers 123 postgraduate, 110 undergraduate, and 65 research courses to Indian students in various specializations such as  MBA, MA, M.Sc, M.Des, M.Arch, B.Tech, BBA and B.Sc. Students are offered various majors such as Business & Management Studies, Engineering, IT & Software, Science, Humanities, Architecture, Design, Animation, Education, Commerce, Mass Communication & Media and Medicine & Health Science. The duration of undergraduate courses is around 3 - 5 years depending on the programme whereas PG courses have a duration of around 12 months - 2 years.

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Accounting and Commerce is ranked #39 by Shiksha Popularity Ranking, #27 by CUG, #57 by Guardian and #251 by QS Ranking. Rankings for these courses by reputed ranking bodies are mentioned below:

Ranking Bodies

2024

2025

2026

CUG - Accounting and Finance

#23

#22

#27

Guardian - Accounting and Finance

#59

#57

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QS - Accounting and Finance

#251

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B.Sc specialisation is ranked #34 by Shiksha Popularity Ranking, #17 by Guardian and #32 by CUG. B.Sc specialised courses are ranked by some of the reputed ranking bodies which are mentioned below.

Ranking Bodies

2024

2025

2026

CUG - Psychology

#62

#61

#32

CUG  - Physics and Astronomy

#32

#29

#33

CUG - Biological Sciences

#49

#50

#44

The Guardian - Physics

#18

#17

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