Napier University was founded in 1964 and achieved university status in 1992. In just three decades it has progressed from a first-class polytechnic to a major Scottish university and one of the top new universities in the UK. Napier is a multi-campus university with four main sites in the city of Edinburgh: Craiglockhart, Merchiston, Craighouse, and Canaan Lane.

Each campus has its unique culture and sense of community, while benefiting from being part of a major university. Napier University's four faculties offer a wide range of professionally-oriented programs designed in consultation with commerce and industry. Many programs allow students to integrate study and work experience. Total enrollment: 14,500 (including over 1,500 international students).

Napier is situated within Scotland's beautiful and cosmopolitan capital city of Edinburgh. In addition to being home to the new Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh hosts the largest international arts festival in the world, and offers numerous cinemas, theatres, restaurants, bars, clubs, and shops. At the heart of the city is the famous Edinburgh castle. Edinburgh is a good communications hub for travel to other parts of Britain, Ireland and continental Europe. Arts (journalism, publishing, communication, photography, film & TV, design, music), Biological and Health Sciences, and Computing/ IT. Napier's graduates have a high record of employment, demonstrating the university's achievement of its primary mission: preparing students for the world of work.
Napier has a modular structure allowing visiting students to devise programs tailored to their own needs. Modules (courses) in most undergraduate and graduate academic disciplines can be combined with one another. Participants are required to carry a normal workload of four modules per semester.
There is strong competition for exchange places in the following fields: Communication Arts, Design, Music, and Photography, Film and Imaging. These programs require a commitment from students to study four modules per semester in each program and submission of a portfolio. Please contact the ISEP coordinator at Napier University for further information.