A university formed in 2010 through the merger of older institutions, with campuses in Lampeter, Carmarthen, Swansea, Cardiff, London and Birmingham. Focus on applied learning, humanities, and creative arts.
Address: College Street, Lampeter, SA48 7ED, Wales, United Kingdom (Note: Multiple main campuses, Lampeter is historic)
Humanities, Art and Design, Engineering
Domains taught:
- AI and Machine Learning, Ecology and Sustainability, Engineering, Industrial Design, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Software Engineering
Diplomas*:
- Bachelor, Certificate, Diploma, Doctor, Master
Status:
- Public
Partnerships:
Partnerships with schools, businesses, and cultural organisations across Wales. Growing focus on enterprise and innovation, particularly in Swansea.
Research:
Research in areas such as humanities and social sciences, art and design, engineering (advanced manufacturing, automotive), and sustainable development.
Famous Alumnis:
Rhys Ifans (attended predecessor), Peter Stead, Dewi Zephaniah Phillips (former staff)
International recognition**:
Number of staff***:
1500
Current students***:
12000
Foreign students***:
10%
Cumulative former students***:
70000
Pros
Multi-campus university serving various regions, strong in certain arts and humanities disciplines, focus on student experience and employability.
Cons
Complex structure with multiple campuses and mergers, variable reputation across disciplines.
Best For
Students seeking a broad range of courses, often with a vocational or creative focus, across various locations in Wales and beyond.
Most Similar Schools Locally
- Both schools build their programmes around industrial design, manufacturing and life sciences, and University of South Wales is the one to compare first within the country, since it is larger, enrolling about 23,000 students against roughly 12,000 here, and is also a public institution.
- Wrexham University offers a comparable education in industrial design, manufacturing and life sciences: it does not run the certificate and diploma programmes found here and covers data analytics as well.
- On content, University of Brighton and this institution are close, as both teach industrial design, manufacturing and ecology and sustainability; it covers materials as well, and is larger, enrolling about 20,000 students against roughly 12,000 here.
- Where this institution leans on industrial design, manufacturing and life sciences, West Herts College does the same, and it is slightly smaller, at about 10,000 students against roughly 12,000 here, and is also a public institution.
- University of Northampton follows much the same lines as this university, with industrial design, manufacturing and life sciences as common ground, and it covers data analytics as well, and has almost the same size, at about 12,500 students.
Most Similar Schools Abroad
- Students considering a move abroad can look at University of New Brunswick in Canada, where ecology and sustainability, life sciences and AI and machine learning also form the core, and it is slightly smaller, at about 10,000 students against roughly 12,000 here, and is also a public institution.
- University of Calgary, based in Canada, is built around ecology and sustainability, life sciences and AI and machine learning much like this university, and it is also a public institution and also offers mba programmes.
- For a study option in India with a comparable spread of manufacturing, AI and machine learning and software engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur is the reference point: it covers agriculture and food science as well, and has almost the same size, at about 13,000 students.
- Seen from abroad, Dundalk Institute of Technology (Ireland) is a close relative on subject matter, since ecology and sustainability, life sciences and software engineering are central to both, and it runs the same bachelor's, master's, doctoral, certificate and diploma programmes, and covers mechanical engineering and electrical and electronics as well.
- A foreign alternative with a similar emphasis on industrial design, life sciences and AI and machine learning is Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in India, and it does not run the certificate and diploma programmes found here and covers nanotechnologies and bioengineering as well.
*our own picks (our criteria: a mix between domains, diploma delivered, reputation and size), but obviously too many criteria for an apple-to-apple ranking.
- Creative Design Strategies, Engineering, Innovation, Sustainable Development, User experience (UX), User-Centered Design
*: without any judgment of the quality, readers are strongly encouraged to check the official status of the exact diploma envisioned as many universities have a mix of recognized diplomas, not recognized, “co-delivered,” “equivalent to”, “some pathways” (…), can change over time, and can be named differently from one country to another.
**: international reputation: is based on some criteria that do not mean much in some domains or specialties (number of researchers, of scientific publications, on budget ….). Our approximate 1-4 scale:
- known locally
- known locally and internationally
- is listed in some of the world university’s classifications
- is listed among the 20 firsts in some of world university’s classifications
***: estimated numbers, based on online sources and/or feedbacks. The numbers can vary greatly depending on school organisation (ex.: school is part of a group, it employs internal staff or external consultants or has public staff without employing them …). Refer to all the links provided to have accurate and updated numbers.
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