University of Sheffield

University of Sheffield
Coat of arms
MottoLatin: Rerum cognoscere causas
Motto in English
To discover the causes of things
TypePublic research university
Established1905 (1905) – University of Sheffield
Predecessor institutions:
1828 (1828) – Sheffield Medical School
1879 (1879) – Firth College
1884 (1884) – Sheffield Technical School[1]
1897 (1897) – University College of Sheffield[2]
Endowment£47.1 million (2023)[3]
Budget£880.2 million (2022/23)[3]
ChancellorLady Justice Rafferty
Vice-ChancellorKoen Lamberts[4]
Academic staff
3,700 (2022/23)[5]
Administrative staff
4,455 (2022/23)[5]
Students31,475 (2022/23)[6]
Undergraduates20,825 (2022/23)[6]
Postgraduates10,655 (2022/23)[6]
Location
Sheffield
,
South Yorkshire
,
England

53°22′51″N 1°29′20″W / 53.3807°N 1.4888°W / 53.3807; -1.4888
CampusUrban
ColoursBlack & gold
                     
Affiliations
Websitesheffield.ac.uk

The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University[7][8] or TUOS)[9][10] is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Its history traces back to the foundation of Sheffield Medical School in 1828, Firth College in 1879 and Sheffield Technical School in 1884.[1] University College of Sheffield was subsequently formed by the amalgamation of the three institutions in 1897 and was granted a royal charter as University of Sheffield in 1905 by King Edward VII.

Sheffield is formed from 50 academic departments which are organised into five faculties and an international faculty. The annual income of the institution for 2022–23 was £880.2 million, of which £198.6 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £790.5 million.[3]

The university is one of the original red brick universities and a founding member of the Russell Group. It is also part of the Worldwide Universities Network, the N8 Group of the eight most research intensive universities in Northern England and the White Rose University Consortium. Sheffield has been ranked in between 66th and 104th best university in the world by QS for the last fifteen years.[11] ARWU ranked Sheffield 9th overall in the UK[12] and THE ranked the university 22nd in Europe for teaching excellence.[13][14] According to the latest Research Excellence Framework 2021, Sheffield is ranked 11th in the UK for research power calculated by multiplying the institution's GPA by the total number of full-time equivalent staff submitted.[15]

There are six Nobel laureates affiliated with Sheffield, as either the alumni or former long-term staff of the university.[16] They are contributors to the development of penicillin, the discovery of the citric acid cycle, the investigation of high-speed chemical reactions, the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA, the discovery of fullerene, and the development of molecular machines. Alumni also include several heads of state, Home Secretaries, Court of Appeal judges, Booker Prize winners, astronauts and Olympic gold medallists.

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