I didn't actually attend Heriot Watt, but visited my pals who went there on many an occasion. This review is thus not about the teaching or courses (which I'm sure are good enough), but about the fairly unique atmosphere it has.
It's location out in the sticks just outside Edinburgh means it's often overlooked by those more concerned with clubbing than studying, but the self-contaned campus feel that results from this is actually probably my favourite thing about it. I attended both the pretentious Glasgow Uni, and the businesslike, socially lacking Strathclyde, so seeing a campus with a community feel where everyone knew everyone else, was a breath of freash air on my visits.
There's some cracking 70s architecture as well, and if you say it fast it sounds like "hairy twat". read more