Overview
• Cardiff University is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales. Founded in 1883 as the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire it became a founding college of the University of Wales.
• The college adopted the public name of Cardiff University in 1999.
• The third oldest university institution in Wales, Cardiff University is a hugely popular UK university.
• Cardiff is a two-hour train journey away from London. Cardiff Metropolitan University and University of South Wales are some of the other universities in the region.
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Things you should know
• Cardiff is the only university in Wales to be a member of the Russell Group of Research-Intensive Universities.
• The Complete University Guide 2020 ranks Cardiff 26th in the UK.
• In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, 33 out of the 34 research areas submitted by the University for assessment were shown to be undertaking research that includes world-leading work.
• According to the Guardian Performance League Table 2020, Cardiff University ranks 38th in the UK.
• Cardiff University was ranked 163rd in Best Global Universities internationally and 20th nationally by US News.
• According to the QS World Ranking 2020 Cardiff is ranked 25th in the world for Communication and Media Studies, 37th for Architecture, 43rd for Mining Engineering, 50th for Dentistry and between 51 and 100 for Pharmacology.
• Cardiff University comes under the top 100 in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (2019) The Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide ranks Cardiff University 32nd in the UK.
• CWTS Leiden (2019) ranks Cardiff University 129th globally.
• It is ranked 37th in the European Teaching Ranking 2019 Cardiff University’s research teams and staff members have been awarded seven Queen’s Anniversary Prizes.
• Cardiff University has two Nobel Laureates on it’s staff and a number of its staff members have been selected as members of the Royal Society.
Alumini
of Cardiff University
• Vedhicka- Indian film actress who has appeared in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu films.
• Lord Jenkins, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary, President of the European Commission and Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
• Barham Salih- president of Iraq.
• Spencer Dale, Chief economist, Bank of England.
• Dame Mary Perkins, Co-Founder, Specsavers.
• Rizwan Riz Khan- BBC and CNN newscaster.
• Manish Bhasin, journalist and television presenter.
• Professor Sir Martin Evans FRS – Nobel Prize winner in 2007 and president of Cardiff University.
• Stephen Bird- Chief Executive Officer of Citi’s Consumer Banking.
• Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
• Robert Huber, Professor of Chemistry, Nobel Laureate – The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1988.
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