A World Top 100 University
The University of Sheffield is a member of the Russell Group of leading UK research universities. Its outstanding performance for excellent teaching and research, as part of a genuinely global community, is consistently confirmed by international independent assessments.
History
The University grew out of the Sheffield Medical School (founded in 1828), Firth College (1879) and the Sheffield Technical School (1884). These three institutions came together in 1897 to form the University College of Sheffield, which in turn became the University of Sheffield in 1905.
Academic departments are grouped into six faculties: Arts and Humanities; Engineering; Medicine, Dentistry and Health; Science; Social Sciences; and International Faculty, City College, Thessaloniki, Greece.
QS World University Rankings
The University is rated 93rd in the world. It is also ranked 16th in the UK and second in Yorkshire and the Humber in the 2021 QS World University Rankings.
Times Higher Education World University Rankings
The University is ranked 117th in the world and 14th in the UK according to the 2020 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
The University also came in at number 45 out of 500 universities in Europe and is 22nd out of 250 universities in Europe in the first international ranking to measure the quality of teaching across the world, the Europe Teaching Rankings.
A Russell Group University
The University is one of the 24 universities that make up the Russell Group. Members of this group are committed to maintaining the very best research, an outstanding teaching and learning experience and unrivalled links with business and the public sector.
In the most recent Research Excellence Framework, 99 per cent of our research was assessed as world-leading, internationally excellent or internationally recognised. We’re top 10 in the Russell Group for research outputs.
Source: University of Sheffield’s website
DOES UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD ACCEPT MALAYSIA’S ENGLISH 1119 TEST RESULTS?
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DISTANCE FROM LONDON
168 miles (~2 hours 40 minutes by train)
