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Cardiff: the University
Further Information
About Cardiff University
www.cardiff.ac.uk/about
Cardiff University
Students’ Union
www.cardiffstudents.com
Cardiff’s Research Quality
www.cardiff.ac.uk/research/
quality
Postgraduate life at Cardiff
www.cardiff.ac.uk/
postgraduate/pglife
The Graduate Centre
www.cardiff.ac.uk/gradc
The Graduate Schools
www.cardiff.ac.uk/
gradschools
Cardiff is a successful, thriving and cosmopolitan
university with a long history of service and achievement
and an international reputation for high-quality teaching
and research. The University offers high academic
standards, modern facilities, a friendly environment and
has a strong focus on the needs of students.
The University was founded in 1883 when it was granted
its own Royal Charter. Today, Cardiff is a member of the
Russell Group, the UK’s top 20 research intensive
universities. It attracts students from 93 countries and
substantial research funding from the Research
Councils, public bodies, industry, commerce and other
sources.
Cardiff University has celebrated a number of notable
achievements during the past few years. Foremost
among these was the award of the Nobel Prize for
Medicine to Professor Sir Martin Evans of the School of
Biosciences, with Sir Martin becoming Cardiff
University’s second Nobel Prize winner, joining Professor
Robert Huber of the School of Chemistry. The University
was also awarded its fourth Queen’s Anniversary Prize –
an award which recognises universities and colleges
across the UK for work of outstanding excellence.
Of our 27,000 students, 8,000 form part of the
University’s postgraduate community. We have 27
academic schools and around 6,000 staff. The
University invests heavily to provide buildings, equipment
and information resources which provide world class
facilities for research, learning and teaching.
Our academic staff work in areas acknowledged as
nationally and internationally significant by independent
assessors. Our stimulating and supportive research
culture provides a dynamic environment in which to
pursue postgraduate research at the frontiers of
knowledge and scholarship.
The University actively builds academic and commercial
relationships and through consultancy arrangements,
our staff provide advice to companies, local authorities
and the government on a wide range of technical and
policy issues.
What the Guides say:
“Outstanding facilities are backed up by a teaching
and research record that is hard to beat.”
Sunday Times University Guide
“Cardiff is a tip top uni academically... hugely
popular with its students. Is Cardiff perhaps the
best kept secret among Britain’s universities”
Virgin Alternative Guide to British Universities
“Cardiff is a world class research-intensive university.”
Daily Telegraph Guide to UK Universities
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