St Andrews is Scotland’s oldest university. It is Scottish University of the Year and second in the UK in both The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026 and The Guardian University Guide 2026. St Andrews is a diverse community of 10,000 students and 2500 staff, a melting pot of 140 nationalities which accounts for over half the population of the town. St Andrews’ USP is its rich history, the excellence of its staff and its cutting-edge teaching and research. It has consistently inhabited the very topmost reaches of the National Student Survey.
Staff and students choose St Andrews for its unswerving loyalty to a culture that prizes and protects the highest standards of research and teaching. Beyond the books, quality of life feeds on sea and sky, cobbled streets, culture, and a collision of world views which make this compressed community one of the most intellectually stimulating in Europe. St Andrews is all about its people, their ideas, and their experience.
The University Court is the governing body of the University and is responsible for providing oversight for senior management in delivery of the strategy, safeguarding the success of the University and ensuring it continues to prosper. Whatever your affiliation with the University thus far – whether you are one of our alumni or a friend or family member, or whether you have previously had no engagement with us – membership of Court or of a Committee as co-optee provides you with an opportunity to exercise your skills and expertise for the collective good of all in our community and future generations of scholars and staff.
The University of St Andrews is seeking new members of Court, and a Co-optee to join its Audit and Risk Committee.
The University Court is the senior governing body of the University and incorporates representative members of staff, students and alumni, along with Non-Executive external Members.
In a rapidly changing external environment and with an increasing emphasis on regulation and accountability, Court business is growing in complexity. To support us in providing first-rate governance and strategic guidance, we are seeking new members of Court to provide appropriate oversight, insight and challenge and who will bring leadership experience in: the delivery or financing of capital projects; law; government and public service; and/or entrepreneurial business development. We are also seeking a new co-opted member of our Audit and Risk Committee, who will be a qualified accountant.
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Applications are particularly welcome from people from Black, Asian, minority ethnic and minority religions backgrounds, and from LGBTQ+ and disabled people who are underrepresented on Court.