Swansea University is a public research university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. It was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, as the fourth college of the University of Wales. In 1996, it changed its name to the University of Wales Swansea following structural changes within the University of Wales. The title of Swansea University was formally adopted on 1 September 2007 when the University of Wales became a non-membership confederal institution and the former members became universities in their own right.

Swansea University has 8 colleges spread across its two campuses which are located on the coastline of Swansea Bay. The Singleton Park Campus is set in the grounds of Singleton Park to the west of Swansea city centre. The £450 million Bay Campus, which opened in September 2015, is located adjacent to Jersey Marine Beach to the east of Swansea city centre which is in the Neath Port Talbot Area.

It is the third largest university in Wales in terms of number of students. It currently offers about 330 undergraduate courses and 120 post-graduate courses to 20,620 undergraduate and postgraduate students. In 2014 Swansea was named University of the Year in the WhatUni.com Student Choice Awards and shortlisted in the same category in the Times Higher Education awards.

In 2016, Swansea University was named as the best university in Wales by The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017 League Table. It was also awarded the inaugural Welsh University of the Year title.

In 2017, Hillary Rodham Clinton received an honorary doctorate at Swansea University and unveiled a commemorative stone to mark the renaming of the College of Law to the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law.

Region	Central Europe
Country	United Kingdom
Established	1920
Status	Public
Students	17350
European University Rankings	222
Central European University Rankings	191
National University Rankings	48
Official Website	https://www.swansea.ac.uk/

University Highlights

Year	Overall	Teaching quality	Research	Employment	Сitation	Internationalization	Innovation	Infrastructure	Opinions of employers	Income	Educational potential
2020	78,82	12,661	12,645	10,076	9,755	8,661	7,588	8,448	4,257	2,107	2,622
2019	87,023	13,652	13,305	11,523	10,645	10,371	8,69	8,728	4,53	2,92	2,659
2018	86,973	13,425	13,551	11,764	10,643	10,382	8,67	8,702	4,512	2,9	2,424
2017	86,696	13,421	13,315	11,529	10,639	10,378	8,665	8,697	4,507	2,895	2,65
2016	86,684	13,42	13,315	11,524	10,636	10,384	8,667	8,694	4,504	2,892	2,648
2015	86,611	13,421	13,312	11,519	10,631	10,377	8,661	8,689	4,491	2,849	2,661