Cardiff University

Established: 1883

Cardiff University is a public research university located in Cardiff, Wales. Founded in 1883 as the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, it is the second oldest university in Wales. It is a member of the Russell Group of leading British research universities. The university is consistently recognised as providing high quality research-based university education and is ranked 143 of the world's top universities by the QS World University Rankings, as well as achieving the highest student satisfaction rating in the 2013 National Student Surveyfor universities in Wales. The University is composed of three colleges: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Biomedical and Life Sciences; and Physical Sciences and Engineering. Its campus is situated next to Bute Park which is the “green heart” of Cardiff full of history and wildlife. Few cities have such a spacious green areas in the heart of their city, which is frequently used as the film set for BBC hit TV shows ‘Dr Who’ and ‘Sherlock’ The university has 2 Nobel prize winners – Sir Martin Evans for Medicine and Robert Huber for Chemistry and in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise Cardiff University was ranked No.5 in the UK for the quality of its research