Our people

A highly skilled and flexible workforce

Scotland has a highly skilled workforce, with a large pool of graduates and post doctoral researchers in life sciences. Compared to EU and US locations, Scottish employers also enjoy competitive labour costs.

Scotland's academic institutions excel at teaching life sciences, attracting some of the brightest students in the world to study here.

There is a full range of education in life sciences and medical disciplines with over 100 courses in biotechnology and related subjects available to students in Scotland, at MSc, BSc, MEng, BEng, Udip and HND level.