Making Waves: The Campaign for St Andrews

Great universities never stand still. They must take the lead as society’s engines of innovation and change, and St Andrews needs to be at the forefront of this.

Making Waves: The Campaign for St Andrews aims to raise £300 million to achieve this ambition through the key projects below.

With your support, we can make waves and shape the future not only of our University, but of our world.

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Our ambitious "Making Waves" campaign is fundamentally about the restless power of ideas, the people who have them and the environment in which we shape and challenge the brightest minds.

Our New College project, the centrepiece of the campaign and the first new college at
this university for nearly 300 years, will bring together our internationally renowned
School of International Relations and our new Business School, fostering world-class
research and educating future global leaders.

Our focus on endowed chairs, scholarships and bursaries underlines our commitment to the University's fundamental strategic goal to attract and nurture the brightest minds from around the world and to provide them with an environment in which they can thrive and produce their best work for maximum societal benefit.

The development of a cutting-edge digital nexus building for the School of Computer Science will form the first phase in our masterplan for our Science and Medicine campus.

This will enable us to generate an intellectual powerhouse of staff and student researchers from across the sciences and medicine, with the resources they need to develop groundbreaking research.

With your support, we can make waves and shape the future not only of our university but of our world.

I would be delighted if you would join us on this quest.

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St Andrews by the Northern Sea.

A haunted town it is to me.

A little city, worn and grey,

the grey North Ocean girds it round and o'er the rocks and up the bay,

the long sea-rollers surge and sound.

O winter of the kindly North,

O college of the scarlet gown,

and shining sands beside the sea

and stretch of links beyond the sand,

once more I watch you and to me it is as if I touched his hand.

The drifting surge,

the wintry year,

the college of the scarlet gown,

St Andrews by the Northern Sea,

where youth and hour came back to me.

Where youth and hour came back to me.

Find out how you can be part of the University of St Andrews Making Waves campaign.

Thank you for being part of our history and our future.

Campaign priorities

Discover the key projects in our Making Waves campaign.

A historic building which will be transformed by the University of St Andrews

'New College'

Digital Nexus Building

A face looking up towards a light source

Endowed Chairs and lectureships

Students walking on the cross pier with fishing nets and lobster pots in the foreground

Scholarships

More projects

Support Making Waves: The Campaign for St Andrews and help enhance our status as a world-leading, diverse, digital, sustainable and entrepreneurial centre of learning, teaching and research.

Support interdisciplinary research into early diagnosis of disease through the Mackenzie Institute for Early Diagnosis
Translate entrepreneurial ideas into innovative solutions by supporting Entrepreneurial St Andrews
The University is committed to sustainability and achieving net zero by 2035. Support Our Sustainable Future
Give your support to Sport at St Andrews, including performance sport, clubs and facilities.

All donations to the University of St Andrews support the Making Waves Campaign.

Collective Giving

Great things are achieved at St Andrews thanks to the power of collective giving.

Find out about our current appeals and join our Community of Giving with a single or regular gift.

Contact us

If you have any questions or would like more information about Making Waves: The Campaign for St Andrews, please contact us at makingwaves@st-andrews.ac.uk.