Swansea University

Swansea University is a public research university in Swansea, Wales, founded in 1920 as University College of Swansea within the University of Wales, and became independent in 2007. The Singleton Park campus sits beside Swansea Bay; the Bay Campus, opened in 2015 on a former industrial site to the east, houses engineering. Medicine and expanded science were added during late-twentieth-century growth.

Units include science and engineering, humanities and social sciences, medicine, health and life sciences, and the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law. Graduate students use hospital-linked medical facilities at Singleton, engineering laboratories and the Energy Safety Research Institute on the Bay Campus, and the Computational Foundry. Materials, manufacturing, health data, and coastal engineering are established fields.

About 20,000 students enroll, including several thousand postgraduates and international students from many countries. Academic staff number more than 1,000. Alumni include entrepreneur Sir Terry Matthews, rugby player Alun Wyn Jones, and politician Lord Anderson of Swansea.

Graduate study includes taught master's degrees, MPhil research master's, and PhDs by supervised thesis with training courses. The calendar follows UK autumn and spring terms. Studentships and research-council awards are the usual doctoral funding routes. Work is split between Singleton Park by the bay and the Bay Campus, with the city and Gower coast nearby.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Swansea University lists 6 graduate programs across 6 subjects: 3 master's programs and 3 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in business & management, civil engineering and data science & business analytics. Swansea University holds rank 347 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.