Heriot-Watt is a research-led and predominantly technological university based in the city of Edinburgh. It is relatively specialised in Engineering, Mathematics, Business Management and Finance, Built Environment, Physical Sciences, and Modern Languages, including world-leading specialities in Petroleum Engineering, Actuarial Mathematics, Robotics, Photonics Science and Technology, and Interpreting and Translating. Heriot-Watt also has an outstanding School of Textiles and Design at a separate campus in the Scottish Borders. At its Scottish campuses, the University has approximately 750 academic and research staff and 9,100 students, of whom 2,500 are postgraduates including over 1,000 research students. Heriot-Watt University also has a growing branch campus in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with approximately 3,700 undergraduate and taught postgraduate students across the range of its subject areas, and opened a new campus in Putrajaya in Malaysia in 2014, which now has over 2,000 students. The University also has a large programme of international distance learning, including the Edinburgh Business School MBA, and is also particularly active in transnational education through a number of learning partner organisations which teach Heriot-Watt University programmes in approximately 50 locations on all contintents. Altogether these bring Heriot-Watt's student population to around 30,000.