Meet with your Academic Adviser
Your personal advisers
When you join the School of Physics and Astronomy you will have two personal advisers. Your "Academic Adviser" (or AA) will be a member of our academic staff and will offer you academic advice and oversee your academic career in your time at the university. Your "Student Adviser" (SA) will be a member of the School's Student Support Team, concentrating on welfare and pastoral issues.
Your first Adviser Meetings
Before Welcome Week your Academic Adviser will contact you to arrange an online pre-arrival group meeting to introduce themselves and welcome you to the University and the School. Please check your UoE email in-box. You will then be invited to a one-to-one in-person follow up meeting during Welcome Week.
Your AA will be based in the James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) at King’s Buildings or the Institute of Astronomy at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh (ROE).
Prior to meeting your AA
- Complete the Maths Diagnostic Test if you have not already done so. You must have completed this before Welcome Week.
- Review the optional courses
Later in the Semester your Student Advisor will arrange to meet you.
At the in-person meeting with your AA
During the meeting your AA will 'confirm your attendance' in the EUCLID system. This is one part of "matriculation", the formal process of becoming a student at the University of Edinburgh. You can discuss any changes to your degree if applicable (entry year for example) and discuss/confirm your optional courses.