Overview
• The University of Sheffield is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.
• It received its royal charter in 1905 as successor to the University College of Sheffield, which was established in 1897 by the merger of Sheffield Medical School (founded in 1828), Firth College (1879) and Sheffield Technical School (1884).Sheffield is a multi-campus university predominantly over two campus areas: the Western Bank and the St George’s.
• It is one of the original red brick universities, a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities, the Worldwide Universities Network, the N8 Group of the eight most research intensive universities in Northern England and the White Rose University Consortium.
• There are eight Nobel laureates affiliated with Sheffield and six of them are the alumni or former long-term staff of the university. The university is organised into five academic faculties composed of multiple departments.
• It had 19,610 undergraduate and 10,585 postgraduate students in 2018/19.
• Sheffield’s location means that it is convenient to travel to other UK cities by public transport.
• London is just two hours away by train, whilst trains to Manchester take just 45 minutes.
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Things you should know
• The Sheffield Students Union has been voted number one in the UK (Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2019).
• Sheffield is one of the top 50 most international universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019).
• It is 22nd out of 250 universities in Europe for teaching excellence (Times Higher Education Europe Teaching Rankings 2019).
• It is also 2nd in the Russell Group for student satisfaction according to the National Student Survey 2019.
• Sheffield is ranked in the top 100 in the world for teaching and research in the arts and humanities and social sciences (Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2020). 99 percent of research is world-leading, internationally excellent or internationally recognised (Research Excellence Framework 2014).
• Sheffield’s social sciences placed 59th globally in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2020.The university’s arts and humanities has been recognised as world-leading, ranking 62nd in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2020.
• Sheffield ranks among the top 10 of UK universities for research grant funding and it has become number one in the UK for income and investment in engineering research according to new data published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).
• In 2011, Sheffield was named ‘University of the Year’ in the Times Higher Education awards.
• The Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2014 ranked the University of Sheffield 1st for student experience, social life, university facilities and accommodation, among other categories.
• In terms of research citations, Sheffield was ranked 93rd worldwide and 9th in the UK by the CWUR 2018-19.
• Sheffield has won Queen’s Anniversary Prizes in 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2007.
• It was also named as one of the top 50 most international universities in 2018 around the world and its reputation of outstanding teaching has been underlined in the most recent league table which put Sheffield joint 9th in the UK and 11th across Europe.
• The University’s Faculty of Science is associated with six Nobel laureates two for the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology.
Alumini
Of University of Sheffield
• Paddy Nixon, Vice-Chancellor & President, Ulster University.
• Stuart Palmer FREng, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Warwick.
• Richard Cousins, CEO of Compass Group world’s largest foodservice company.
• Penny Hughes, former president of Coca-Cola Enterprises (UK).
• Lee Child, novelist.
• Andy Haldane, Chief Economist at the Bank of England.
• Sir Harold Kroto, Nobel Prize-winning chemist.
• Sir Richard Roberts, Nobel Prize-winning geneticist.
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