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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Note that university in the UK is 3 years not 4 and there are no real electives--you study just what's in your major, and you can't easily switch majors. So it's definitely not for everyone.[/quote]

No….England….In Scotland it is 4 years and there are plenty of electives. And you do have a LITTLE bit of flexibility to potentially change majors in end of year 1 or 2.[/quote]

Changing majors after matriculation is uncommon in Scotland, and is done by a request, which the University is free to deny.  So do not count on this.

It might happen in adjacent degrees. Contrived example might be a Physics student changing to Maths, because Physics already will require a lot of Maths and student likely also met admissions requirements for Maths.

By contrast, a History student changing to CS is fairly unlikely to be approved.  They are not adjacent fields and likely have different admissions requirements. [/quote]

My son was a Management major at Edinburgh and changed to International relations in semester 4. It is very easy to do so IF and only IF you take your electives in the other course. At Edinburgh you typically have 3 compulsory classes in year 1 and 3 electives. The 3 electives can typically be at any college that open classes for the whole university. My son took 3 Compulsory business classes and 3 electives in the Political Science school. Same for the 1st semester of year 2 and then he made the official request to change and was granted.

He had a buddy that went the other way. From IR to Management. The difficulty is finding the appropriate class times to make it work. But if you do have the compulsory classes, 9 out of 10 times, the different schools at Edinburgh will accept your transfer request. This is something that just doesnt exist in English unis due to the 3 year nature of their program vs SCotland’s 4 years.[/quote]

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