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University of Wales, Swansea

Swansea University
Welsh: Prifysgol Abertawe
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Former names
University College of Swansea, University of Wales Swansea
Motto Gweddw crefft heb ei dawn
(Technical skill is bereft without culture)
Type Public
Established 1920– University College of Swansea
1996 – University of Wales, Swansea
2007 – Swansea University
Endowment £5.7M (2015)
Budget Total Income: £205 million (2013/14)
Chancellor The Rt Hon. Rhodri Morgan
Vice-Chancellor Richard B. Davies
Administrative staff
1187
Students 16,020 (2014/15)
Undergraduates 13,465 (2014/15)
Postgraduates 2,555 (2014/15)
Location Swansea, UK
Campus Suburban/Coastal
Colours Academic: Red, silver and black
Athletic Union: Green and white
Affiliations University of Wales, EUA, ACU
Website www.swansea.ac.uk
Rankings
QS
(2016/17, national)
48
QS
(2016/17, world)
390
THE
(2016/17, national)
38
THE
(2016/17, world)
301-350
Complete
(2017, national)
45
The Guardian
(2017, national)
39
Times/Sunday Times
(2017, national)
44

Swansea University (Welsh: Prifysgol Abertawe) is a public research university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. It was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, as the fourth college of the University of Wales and in 1948 became the first campus university in UK. 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 two campuses located adjacent to the coast at the north of Swansea Bay. The Singleton Park Campus is set in the grounds of Singleton Park to the west of Swansea city centre. The Bay Campus which opened in September 2015, is located adjacent to Jersey Marine Beach to the east of Swansea city centre.

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 16,020 undergraduate and postgraduate students.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.

The university is divided between two campuses. The 46-acre Singleton Park campus, set in parkland two miles west of Swansea city centre, houses the colleges of Arts and Humanities, Human and Health Sciences, Medicine, Science and Law. It lies on the eastern approach to the Gower Peninsula, the UK’s first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and is also home to the Taliesin Arts Centre.


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