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Acedex International University

Knowledge in depth.
Ideas in practice.

Connect your education to the world you want to shape. At Acedex, academic study, industry partnership and departmental enterprise form one learning experience.

Find your programme Discover the Acedex approach

LEARN · APPLY · CREATEGLOBAL PERSPECTIVE. PURPOSEFUL PRACTICE.

Your next chapter

Find your programme.

A different kind of connection01

A lecturer and students exchange ideas in a university seminar — Good learning begins with a question worth exploring.

Academic ambition.
Practical purpose.

A university experience should expand what you understand—and what you are able to contribute.

Explore ideas with depth, test them in context and learn to work with people whose perspectives differ from your own. Acedex brings these experiences together through a globally connected academic community.

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Schools & disciplines02

Choose a field.
Open new possibilities.

Six connected academic communities. Explore the questions, methods and practical experiences that give each school its character.

Computing & Intelligent Systems

Design trustworthy digital systems, understand data and build technology that serves people.

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Business & Enterprise

Connect commercial insight with responsible leadership, financial judgement and venture creation.

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Education & Human Development

Reimagine how people learn, develop capability and participate in a changing world.

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Engineering & Sustainable Systems

Work across energy, agriculture and engineering to create resilient systems and useful solutions.

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Public Leadership & Wellbeing

Bring evidence, collaboration and public purpose to the challenges facing communities.

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Design & Creative Industries

Combine creative exploration with research, technology and the discipline of making.

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Explore study03

A pathway with purpose.

Find the subject that interests you. Compare the details that matter. Keep your shortlist close.

Browse all programmes

BSc · Undergraduate

Computer Science & Intelligent Systems

Build the foundations to design software, understand intelligent systems and solve problems that matter to people and organisations.

3 years full-timeBlended

BSc · Undergraduate

Business Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Understand how organisations work and develop the judgement to create, test and grow responsible ventures.

3 years full-timeBlended

MA · Postgraduate

Digital Education & Learning Design

Design inclusive learning experiences grounded in evidence, creativity and thoughtful use of technology.

18 months part-timeOnline

The Acedex difference04

Learning connected.
From understanding to contribution.

The Acedex Programme–Industry–Enterprise Model (PIEM) connects every programme to a substantial network of relevant organisations and its own departmental enterprise.

01 / PROGRAMME
Understand deeply.
Build disciplinary knowledge, question evidence and develop independent judgement.
02 / INDUSTRY
Engage with a challenge.
Apply that knowledge to a relevant brief, informed by a substantial network of organisations.
03 / ENTERPRISE
Create something useful.
Develop and evaluate a product, service or solution through your programme’s departmental enterprise.

Students and an academic mentor inspect field sensors on a demonstration farm

See the connection

A field question. A measured response.

Study sustainable systems. Investigate resource use. Develop a supervised diagnostic through a departmental enterprise.

Follow an example project

Academic depth · Industry connection · Enterprise in action · Global reach

Explore the full PIEM model

Research & innovation05

Researchers examine a solar cell during a supervised laboratory experiment — Careful experiments turn promising questions into useful knowledge.

Ask questions that reach beyond the page.

Responsible technology. Resilient systems. Inclusive economies. Human wellbeing.

Explore research themes that connect disciplinary depth with public purpose, and see how a carefully framed investigation can lead to a practical contribution.

Explore research Projects in practice

Adult students from different backgrounds work on a design model in a leafy courtyard

Life at Acedex

Find your people.
Discover your direction.

Build a community around the ideas you care about. Find academic guidance, room for creativity and support for the challenges of university life.

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Global learning06

Your learning.
A wider world.

Independent study with real points of connection.

Understand how online teaching, peer collaboration and local support can fit into your week. Explore the complementary role of authorised GOE Centers and the practical questions to ask before choosing a programme.

Discover how global learning works