University of Sheffield

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University of Sheffield
motto Rerum cognoscere causas
(German: The causes of things to discover)
founding 1905
Sponsorship state
place Sheffield , UK
President & Vice-Chancellor Koen Lamberts
Students 24,500 (2013)
Employee 6,000 (2013)
including professors 1,200
Networks Russell Group , AACSB , AMBA , EQUIS , N8 Research Partnership
Website www.shef.ac.uk

The University of Sheffield ( German  University of Sheffield ) is a state university founded in 1905 in the English city of Sheffield with around 24,500 students and 1,200 academic employees.

The university is one of the world's most respected universities and is considered a top university both in specialist circles and in media coverage . The university reached 66th place in the global ranking, making it one of the 1% best universities in the world and one of the 20 most renowned institutions in Europe. She is a member of the Russell Group and has produced 5 Nobel Prize winners to date.

history

Seal over the entrance gate

The university's forerunners were the successively merged higher education institutions of Sheffield Medical School (founded in 1828), Firth College  - a science school - (1879) and Sheffield Technical School (1884). At the turn of the century there were plans to merge these together with the educational institutions in Leeds , Liverpool and Manchester , which were established at the same time, in a supra-regional university, but the establishment of the independent University of Leeds in 1904 made this obsolete. The colleges in Sheffield finally received the Royal Charter by King Edward VII in 1905 to educate the University of Sheffield with only 114 students at the time.

Since its inception, the University of Sheffield has been one of the civil universities in England, which is also reflected in the courses offered. It is also a major research university. The University of Sheffield receives extensive research contracts from industry, including Boeing , Rolls-Royce , Unilever and GlaxoSmithKline . The university has a very high reputation among employees and is one of the higher education institutions at which leading employers such as Goldman Sachs , PricewaterhouseCoopers or Google recruit.

Admission to Studies

The entry requirements are among the highest in the country. In 2012, for example, the psychologists at the medical faculty received an average of 23 potential applicants for one place.

Awards

Victorian architecture of Firth College from 1879
St. George Church serves as the university's faculty facility

The university was named University of the Year by the Sunday Times in 2001 and is consistently in the newspaper's top 20. The university achieved particularly good placements in the departments of philosophy (6th place among English universities), chemistry (6th place) and biology (5th place). The field of political science (3rd place), which was the only course to overtake the renowned University of Cambridge in the 2010 ranking , is particularly respected internationally . The University was awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2007 for exceptional merits in research and teaching. In the teaching quality assessment, the university took third place. Around 75% of all departments received the highest possible rating.

The business school has a Triple Crown (university accreditation) . This makes it one of the few business faculties in the world that has both AACSB , AMBA and EQUIS accreditation.

The university's student association has been voted the best in the country by Times Higher Education several times.

Partner universities

The university offers several exchange programs at renowned partner universities. These include u. a. University of Tokyo , Australian National University , McGill University , Hong Kong University , Singapore National University , Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan .

In addition, the university has a large number of exchange opportunities within the European Erasmus network. In Germany z. B. with the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich , Technical University Munich , University Heidelberg , Humboldt University Berlin and the Free University Berlin , as well as outside Germany with the University Coimbra , University Salamanca , Reich University Groningen , University Vienna , University Helsinki , University Lund , University of Barcelona and Maastricht University .

The university has national ties to the University of Leeds and the University of York in the White Rose Consortium .

Faculties

Sir Frederick Mappin Building , Faculty of Engineering

The university is divided into 7 faculties with a total of 70 specialist departments and over 60 research centers.

Selection of famous graduates and lecturers

Faculty of Theater Studies

Nobel Prize Winner

The Arts Tower (78 m, 1965) houses v. a. Departments of the Faculties of Architecture and Art (including languages)

Academic

economy

law

literature

Art and media

Pioneers

politics

Sciences

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/vc/biography
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from May 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/9542312/Third-of-Britains-elite-universities-still-looking-for-students.html
  4. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/jul/22/russell-group-universities-in-clearing
  5. ↑ http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/times-higher-student-experience-sheffield-university-tops-rusell-group-and-region-1.174528
  6. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8635891/Top-students-concentrated-in-just-12-elite-universities.html
  7. ↑ http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2012
  8. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from May 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/student-life/9796679/Warwick-University-top-target-for-graduate-employers.html
  10. ↑ How hard is it to get a place at Sheffield? Clinical Psychology Unit FAQ. ( Memento from February 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
  11. ↑ http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/tol_gug/gooduniversityguide.php?AC_sub=Politics&x=22&y=10&sub=52
  12. ↑ http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/about/qap
  13. ↑ EQUIS Triple Crown Accreditation: An exceptional reputation. University news from December 10, 2014.
  14. ↑ http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/student-satisfaction-survey-1.270039
  15. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from November 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/admissions-and-programs/exchange-program/
  17. ↑ http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/erasmus/exchange-links
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