University of South Wales

学费Tuition Fee

英国欧盟UK/EU fees £9,000

国际学生Fees (international) £11,300

地址Address

Pontypridd CF37 1DL

Performance		Score 数值	Ranking 排名
2015 Times Ranking	2015年泰晤士报排名		114
2014 Times Ranking	2014年泰晤士报排名
World Ranking	世界排名
Student satisfaction	学生满意度	77%	117
Research quality	研究质量	3.7%	76
Ucas entry points	本科录取水平	322	74
Graduate prospects	毕业生展望	55.4%	108
Firsts and 2:1s	1等及2等1学位比例	59.9%	96
Completion rate	完成度	80.8%	100
Student-staff ratio	学生-老师比	21.6:1	110
Services/facilities spend	服务/设施花费	£ 1,313	92
Graduate salaries	毕业生起薪	£ 18,563
Sports points/rank	体育	668.83	48

Social mix	学生情况	Score数值
Undergraduate (full-time)	本科全日制人数	15,835
Postgraduate (full-time)	研究生全日制人数	2,475
Applications/places	申请人数／录取人数	18,205/4,555
Applications/places ratio	申请录取率	4:1
EU students	欧盟学生	2.7%
Other overseas students	海外学生	5.1%
Mature	成年学生	28%
State school educated	公立学校教育	98.4%
Middle class/working class	中产／工薪比率	61.5/38.5

Student satisfaction 学生满意度
Subject	科目领域	％
Accounting & Finance	会计金融	85.5
Aeronautical & Manufacturing Engineering	航空和制造工程	67.6
Archaeology	考古学	73.1
Art & Design	艺术设计	78.9
Biological Science	生物科学	75.2
Building	建造学	84.1
Business Studies	商务研究	81.1
Chemistry	化学	77.5
Civil Engineering	土木工程	82.4
Communication & Media Studies	传媒和媒体研究	71.8
Computer Science	计算机科学	74.0
Creative Writing	创造性写作	67.3
Drama, Dance & Cinematics	戏剧舞蹈和电影研究	70.2
Education	教育	81.4
Electrical and Electronic Engineering	电子电气工程	83.5
English	英语	76.7
Geography & Environmental Science	地理和环境科学	86.2
Geology	地质学	52.4
History	历史	82.2
Hospitality, Leisure, Recreation & Tourism	酒店休闲娱乐和旅游	65.4
Law	法律	75.5
Mathematics	数学	87.0
Mechanical Engineering	机械工程	56.8
Music	音乐	69.3
Nursing	护理	88.6
Psychology	心理学	76.9
Social Work	社会工作	78.0
Sociology	社会学	78.8
Sport Science	体育科学	80.3
Subjects allied to medicine	医学相关	81.8
Theology & Religious Studies	神学和宗教研究	76.9

奖学金／助学金Bursaries/scholarships

£1,500 university accommodation discount (Treforest, Caerleon and Cardiff) for those paying full fees. Not available to those receiving Welsh Government tuition fee grant.

Flying Start scholarship of £750 and an iPad in year 1 for students with at least 320 UCAS points. Further general bursaries and scholarships to be announced.

大学概况University Profile

South Wales (USW), the product of a merger between Glamorgan and the University of Wales Newport universities, makes its debut in our league table this year. The two partners came together in 2013 after several years of on/off negotiations and no little political intervention.

They formed the largest university in Wales and one of the 10 largest in the UK, with over 30,000 students across five – but soon to be four – campuses in Wales. The university recently announced the closure of the Caerleon campus in Newport, but a further site is to be added with a London Centre for postgraduate and executive education, in Docklands.

The University of South Wales Group also includes the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Merthyr Tydfil College, and a new strategic alliance with the remaining further education colleges in South East Wales will spread the network even further. The alliance covers 38 campuses, providing 98,000 learners with advice and structured progression routes from further education to university.

Even before the merger, Glamorgan and Newport were working together on the Universities Heads of the Valleys Institute, developing adults’ skills in the former mining area.

About half of USW’s students are full-time undergraduates and two-thirds are at least 21 years old. Three-quarters are from Wales and receive grants to reduce the cost of tuition; undergraduates from other parts of the UK will pay fees of £9,000 for all degrees in 2015-16.

The degrees include the full range of science and engineering subjects, from aircraft engineering and mathematics to computing and surveying. The university is also an experienced provider of teacher training.

There is a focus on employability and simulated learning to ensure that students learn how their future profession works in real life. There are partnerships with industry leaders and major employers, from British Airways to the National Health Service.

Teaching facilities include the university’s own aircraft, moot court room, TV studios, stock exchange trading room, hospital wards, and scenes-of-crime house. Sport students train and play on facilities used by Olympic athletes and the All Blacks.

The university is also a significant player in the arts, with an internationally acclaimed film school, industry-standard animation facilities, one of the UK’s oldest photography schools and a strong reputation for theatre design.

The main research strengths are in applied projects, and it is a member of the St David’s Day Group, which brings together all of the Principality’s universities to focus on research and innovation.

Two of USW’s campuses are 10 miles outside Cardiff, near Pontypridd, while a third is in the city itself. Around £28m is being spent on improvements, more than half of it on an expansion of the university’s campus in the heart of Cardiff. The £35m ATRiuM building houses the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, in the city centre, along with new premises for law and accounting and finance courses. Other recent developments include expanded facilities for health, science and sport, as well as new halls of residence. There has also been a new home for the Law School on the Treforest campus and new laboratories at nearby Glyntaff.

Amenities on the Treforest campus have been developing more generally, with a modern recreation centre and a new students’ union. A £6m Learning Resource Centre opened in February 2014.

The high-quality sports facilities have continued to improve: a £4m sports park opened in 2011. The university also hosts one of six centres of excellence in cricket. USW has been successful in student competitions, especially in rugby, and offers a number of sports bursaries for students with international potential.

The £35m Newport City Campus opened in 2011 and won an award from the Royal Institute of British Architects for its striking design. It is at the heart of Newport’s new Cultural Quarter, designed to attract inward investment and strengthen the local economy.

Newport was rated the top university in Wales for enterprise education by the Knowledge Exploitation Fund for three years in a row, helping more than 70 new start-up businesses. The Newport campus is also well-known for photography and film, hosting the International Film School Wales, whose graduates include double-BAFTA winner Asif Kapadia, and Justin Kerrigan, director of the cult movie Human Traffic.

The Caerleon Campus, a few miles from Newport, currently caters for humanities, education, health and social sciences and photography. There is a student village of 661 self-catered study bedrooms and a well-equipped sports centre.

The city of Newport is undergoing a £2bn regeneration programme and has plenty of clubs and entertainment venues, but students in search of serious cultural or clubbing activity head for Cardiff.

学生观点Student view

Carys Thomas, students’ union president

First impressions

Daunting and new, but dive into everything and it will transform you from a high-school leaver into a get-up-and-go uni student.

Worst feature

It can be hard to balance seeing all your friends, working and having time to yourself.

Making a difference

I set up our Rag in 2013 and that year we raised £39,582 doing everything from underwear fun runs to trekking through Inca ruins.

Deal clincher

The best thing about being a student is the freedom - apart from being tied to lectures, you can do and get involved with as much or as little as you like.