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University of of Sheffield

The (informally Sheffield University or TUOS) is a public in Sheffield, , . Its history traces back to the foundation of in 1828, Firth College in 1879 and Sheffield Technical School in 1884. 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. Coat of arms

Sheffield is formed from 50 academic departments which are Latin: Universitatis Sheffieldiensis organised into five faculties and an international faculty. The annual Motto Latin: Rerum income of the institution for 2018–19 was £677.2 million of which cognoscere causas £154.8 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £657.9 million. Sheffield ranks among the top 10 of Motto To discover the UK for research grant funding, and it has become in English causes of things number one in the UK for income and investment in engineering Type Public research research according to new data published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). It is one of the top 7 British universities university by postgraduate student enrollment along with UCL, King's, Established 1905 – University , , Edinburgh and Oxford. of Sheffield Predecessor The university is one of the original red brick universities, a member institutions: of the of research-intensive universities, the Worldwide Universities Network, the N8 Group of the eight most 1828 – Sheffield research intensive universities in and the White Medical School Rose University Consortium. Sheffield has been ranked as top 100 1879 – Firth university in the world by QS for last fifteen years. In 2019, the College University ranked 22nd in Europe for teaching excellence. 1884 – Sheffield Technical School There are eight Nobel laureates affiliated with Sheffield and six of them are the alumni or former long-term staff of the university. They 1897 – University are contributors to the development of penicillin, the discovery of College of the citric acid cycle, the investigation of high-speed chemical Sheffield reactions, the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA, the discovery Endowment £46.0 million (as of of fullerene, and the development of molecular machines. Alumni 31 July 2019) also include several Head of state, Home Secretary, Court of Appeal judges, Booker Prize winner, astronaut and Olympic gold Budget £708.1 million medallists. (2018-19) Chancellor Lady Justice Rafferty Vice-Chancellor Koen Lamberts

Academic staff 8,465 (2018)

Administrative 6,581 staff

Students 30,195 (2018/19) History Undergraduates 19,610 (2018/19) Postgraduates 10,585 (2018/19) Origins Location Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England The University of Sheffield was originally formed by the merger of Campus Urban three local institutions: the Sheffield School of Medicine, Firth College, and the Sheffield Technical School. With a history dating Colours Black & gold back to as early as the 1810s, the Sheffield School of Medicine is the university’s oldest predecessor institution, which is also the oldest higher education establishment in Sheffield. In 1795, the General Infirmary was opened, becoming the first hospital in the city. Because Affiliations Russell Group of the apprenticeship-type training, the medical education at that time WUN was largely unstructured. Regarded as the father of Sheffield's ACU medical education, surgeon apothecary Hall Overend began to train N8 Group medical students in 1811. His school of anatomy and medicine was White Rose externally recognised in 1828, and he conducted and taught human dissection in an anatomy museum at his home in Church Street. EQUIS Overend, however, was not officially registered as a lecturer with the AMBA Society of Apothecaries, a recognised body for medical Universities UK [21] education. Physicians and surgeons of the General Infirmary Website www.sheffield.ac.uk suggested that a school associated with the hospital would be highly (http://www.sheffiel eligible for recognition by the Society. d.ac.uk/)

Former Master Cutler and Mayor of Sheffield Mark Firth opened Firth College in 1879

Campus and locations

The University of Sheffield is not a , though most of its 430 buildings are located in fairly close proximity to each other. It is divided geographically by the Sheffield Inner Ring Road. The Upper Hanover Street section of the ring road splits university buildings into the Western Bank and the St George’s campus areas. Instead of growing from a single centre, since receiving its Royal Charter, the university has expanded from two academic foci about 1 km apart: on Western Bank and Sir Frederick Mappin Building on St George’s. The and

Academics

Reputation and rankings

Rankings The university has been described by The Times as one of the powerhouses of British higher education. The university is a member National rankings of the Russell Group, the European University Association, the Complete (2021) 28 Worldwide Universities Network and the White Rose University Guardian (2021) Consortium. Meanwhile, it was among the top 10 of the Russell Group 31 for research output and top 12 for research strength in Research Times / Sunday Times 25

Excellence Framework 2014. In terms of research citations, Sheffield (2021) was ranked 93rd worldwide and 9th in the UK by the CWUR 2018– 19. It was also ranked 20th overall in Europe and 10th in the UK for Global rankings number of signed EU grant agreements according to the data since ARWU (2020) 101– 2007. 150 Sheffield has received the Queen's Anniversary Prize four times in QS (2021) 93=

1998, 2000, 2002 and 2007. In 2011 it was named 'University of the THE (2021) 121= Year' in the Times Higher Education awards. The latest Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2014 ranked the University of British Government assessment Sheffield 1st for student experience, social life, university facilities and Teaching Excellence Silver accommodation, among other categories. It was also named as one of Framework the top 50 most international universities in

2018 around the world and its reputation of outstanding teaching has been underlined in the most recent league table which put Sheffield joint 9th in the UK and 11th across Europe.

In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) Sheffield was ranked 12th for research power and 14th by GPA for research quality in the UK, with 86% (8th highest among the Russell Group) of the research submitted by the academic staff having been rigorously judged as world leading or internationally excellent .The university was one of only eleven in the country to make 30 or more submissions in a wide range of subject areas. Of the 35 submissions from Sheffield, 23 were judged to be in the top ten in the Russell Group for the quality of their research output

People associated with the university

Notable alumni

David Blunkett, MP Lee Child, author Sir Bernard Hogan- and former Home Howe, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Secretary Service

Nobel prizes

Howard Florey Hans Adolf Krebs George Porter Richard Roberts

Harold Kroto Sir James Fraser Stoddart