There are more than 18,500 students in higher education at Swansea University & Swansea Metropolitan University, and a further 2,200 students studying at University of Wales:Trinity Saint David in Carmarthen.
With so much to do, see and enjoy while here students are spoilt for choice! To get an idea of what's on offer check out the pages in our 'Living In' section.
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Swansea University alone has over 12,000 students and offers more than 500 undergraduate and 130 postgraduate courses in a wide range of subject areas, from American Studies to Zoology.
More than 6,500 students had enrolled to study at Swansea Metropolitan University starting in October 2009. Swansea Met has three faculties: Faculty of Applied Design & Engineering, Faculty of Art & Design and Faculty of Humanities.
Trinity's students come from all over the UK, plus there is a growing community of international students studying at the campus, including Study Abroad students from the USA, and students from other universities in Europe through the EU funded Erasmus programme. In July 2009, Trinity University College was formally merged with University of Wales Lampeter. The new Institution, to be called University of Wales:Trinity St David, will accept its first cohort of students in September 2010.
All three universities have students from overseas, representing more than 30 countries world-wide, ranging from Scandanavia, Europe, India, China, USA, Canada, South America and many others too numerous to name. In today's global market place, knowledge and ability to work effectively with others is vital and having overseas students is important to university life, not just from an educational perspective but also culturally, raising social awareness and understanding and students benefit from this interaction.
Did you know?
- The Times Higher Education Supplement's National Student Experience Survey placed Swansea University in the top 10 for the UK's best student experience two years running, 2008 and 2009.
- Students studying in Swansea Bay come from all over the UK and at least 30 other countries world-wide.
- Swansea Metropolitan gained Fairtrade status in 2008 and was also short-listed in the Contractors Public Agency category at the Sustainable Swansea Awards.
- Latest figures from the Higher Education Estates Management Statistics (EMS) for 2007/8 show that Swansea Met uses less energy per square metre than any other university in the UK.
- The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008 stated that Swansea University has the largest increase in internationally excellent research in the whole of the UK, and its contribution to world leading research in Wales more than doubled in seven years - from 8.7% to 19.1%.
- The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) confirmed that Carmarthen's Trinity College was the best in Wales for getting graduates into jobs at the end of their degree programmes (2009).
