HISTORY
The University of Sheffield is a research university based in the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It is one of the original “redbrick” universities and is a member of the Russell Group of leading research intensive universities.
The University of Sheffield was originally formed by the merger of three colleges; the Sheffield School of Medicine, Firth College and the Sheffield Technical School. The three institutions merged in 1897 to form the University College of Sheffield which received its own Royal Charter in 1905 and became the University of Sheffield.
GENERAL INFORMATION
• The University of Sheffield is not a campus university, though most of its buildings are located in fairly close proximity to each other.
• The centre of the University’s presence is a mile west off the Sheffield city centre, where there is a mile long collection of buildings belonging almost entirely to the University.
• The University of Sheffield’s 25,000 students are mostly from the UK, but include more than 3,700 international students from 120 countries.
INTERESTING FACTS
• Ranked 40th in the World’s Top 100 Universities (Global University Ranking Study 2009).
• Ranked 17th in the United Kingdom (Research Assessment Exercise 2008).
• Consistently ranked amongst the top 20 universities in the United Kingdom and Europe (The Good University Guide).
• Ranked amongst the UK’s and World’s Top 100 Universities (Times Higher Education World University Rankings).
• The university has produced 5 Nobel Prize winners.
• Major research partners and clients include Boeing, Rolls Royce, Siemens, Unilever, Boots, AstraZeneca, GSK, ICI, and Slazenger, as well as UK and foreign government agencies and charitable foundations.
• Notable alumni – Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Arifin bin Zakaria (LLB Hons) Chief Judge of Malaya (Federal Court Malaysia).
The University of Sheffield
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