Swansea University

Swansea University was established in 1920 as University College of Swansea, the fourth college of the University of Wales, with its foundation stone laid by King George V on 19 July 1920. Just 89 students enrolled in that first year, eight of them women. Today around 19,000 to 20,000 students study at Swansea, from around 130 nations, across three faculties. Swansea is recognised for the quality of its teaching and student experience, and its research strengths include engineering, medicine, science and the humanities. The university's two coastal campuses give students a distinctive setting on Swansea Bay, with the Gower Peninsula, Britain's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, close by. The Singleton Park Campus sits in parkland with botanical gardens to the west of the city centre, while the Bay Campus is a 65-acre, £450 million development that opened in September 2015 on Jersey Marine Beach to the east of Swansea, giving the university one of the most striking waterfront locations in the United Kingdom.