Overview
• Swansea University is a public research university chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920.
• In 1996 it changed its name to the University of Wales Swansea following structural changes within the University of Wales.
• The title of Swansea University was formally adopted on 1 September 2007 when the University of Wales became a non-membership confederal institution and the former members became universities in their own right.
• Swansea University has 8 colleges spread across its two campuses which are located on the coastline of Swansea Bay.
• The Singleton Park Campus is set in the grounds of Singleton Park to the west of Swansea city centre.
• The £450 million Bay Campus which opened in September 2015 is located adjacent to Jersey Marine Beach to the east of Swansea city centre which is in the Neath Port Talbot Area.
• It is the third largest university in Wales in terms of number of students.
• It currently offers about 330 undergraduate courses and 120 post-graduate courses to 20,620 undergraduate and postgraduate students.
• Swansea University has 8 colleges spread across its two campuses which are located on the coastline of Swansea Bay.
• The Singleton Park Campus is set in the grounds of Singleton Park to the west of Swansea city centre
• The £450 million Bay Campus which opened in September 2015 is located adjacent to Jersey Marine Beach to the east of Swansea city centre which is in the Neath Port Talbot Area
• It is the third largest university in Wales in terms of number of students.
• It currently offers about 330 undergraduate courses and 120 post-graduate courses to 20,620 undergraduate and postgraduate students.
• The universities in the region include university of South Wales. Cardiff Metropolitan University and University of Cardiff. London is about 3.5 hrs away from Swansea by train.
Reputation
Things you should know
• In 2014 Swansea was named University of the Year in the WhatUni.com Student Choice Awards and shortlisted in the same category in the Times Higher Education awards.
• In 2016 Swansea University was named as the best university in Wales by The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017 League Table.
• It was also awarded the inaugural Welsh University of the Year title.
• In 2017, Hillary Rodham Clinton received an honorary doctorate at Swansea University and unveiled a commemorative stone to mark the renaming of the College of Law to the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law.
• Swansea University’s best departments are Medicine and Engineering ranked 2nd and 15th respectively 2014 Research Excellence Framework.
• The Law Department also ranks highly coming in at 22nd in the Times Good University Guide 2019 in the UK as well as in the 151–200 category in QS World Rankings.
• Overall Swansea University is ranked 26th in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework.
Alumini
Of Swansea University
• Lyn Evans, CBE, Project Leader, Large Hadron Collider, CERN.
• Andy Hopper CBE FRS, co-founder of Acorn Computers Ltd.
• Alan Cox (shared with University of Wales, Aberystwyth), Linux pioneer.
• Shekhar Dutt, Former governor of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
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