Swansea University is a research-led university that has been making a difference since 1920. The University community thrives on exploration and discovery, and offers the right balance of excellent teaching and research, matched by an enviable quality of life. Our stunning waterfront campuses make us a desirable location for students and staff from around the world, and our multicultural community provides a global perspective, enabling those who join us to develop skills and knowledge that set them on successful and enriching careers.
Swansea University offers award-winning postgraduate study in a stunning coastal location. From master's degrees to PhD study, we offer postgraduate programmes in a wide variety of subject areas. As a UK top 30 research university (Research Excellence Framework 2014-2021), all of our postgraduate courses are informed by the latest developments in research and innovation. Discover how Swansea's research is changing lives across the world today.
With a wide range of accommodation options, you will be spoilt for choice when deciding where to make yourself at home at Swansea University.
Accommodation plays a large part in student life and living in university accommodation adds a unique element to your student experience. Our welcoming, safe residences are well maintained and provide access to great facilities, helping you to settle into university life. Choose your new home from options across Singleton Park Campus, Bay Campus, true Student, Seren, Beck House, and Private Sector shared houses & flats. We offer designated accommodation areas, Welsh language only accommodation, as well as accessible and adapted rooms for students with special requirements. Our accommodation team will support you through your application process to support you with making the best choice for your requirements.
Living in private accommodation is a great way to fully immerse yourself in our City and its culture. It will offer greater privacy, and the ability to choose who you live with, and where you live. Most private accommodation will be in the most popular student areas of Swansea, and will have good transport links and access to shops, bars, and food outlets. Sharing a house with friends is usually a go-to option for second year students. Please see herefor more information.
At Sport Swansea, we offer performance programmes in men's and women's rugby and football, as well as swimming, hockey and table tennis. We employ a team of experienced and highly qualified professionals to manage and deliver our performance programmes, which focus on intensive training and support to help our top athletes continuously improve their performance and realise their full potential. We nurture and develop our most talented athletes through comprehensive scholarship packages designed to help our sport scholars excel academically, as well as in their chosen sport.
Sport Swansea has a huge range of competitive and non-competitive sports clubs that you can find below- there is no limit to how many you can join! To take part in any of these clubs, you will need a Sport Swansea membership as well as specific club membership. Swansea University also has a strong campus-based student community. From visual arts to poker; real ale to gospel, the Students' Union most likely has the perfect society for you - and if it doesn't, the Union makes it easy for you to start your own!
The Customer Service Team provides support and acts as an escalation point for all Library and IT enquiries.
Located at the Information Desks in the Singleton Park and Bay Libraries which are open 24 hours a day except for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day. The Customer Service Team can help with:
- Connecting to Swansea University Wi-Fi
- Bring your own device connection clinics
- Setting up your Swansea University email on your devices
- Laptop loans
- SPSS, NVivo and Mathematica installation usb/disc loans
- Printing, photocopying and scanning services
- Signposting to appropriate guidance for MS Office and other software applications
- Advice on password safety and information security
- Booking in service for assistance with data recovery and virus removal
Swansea is a vibrant centre for art and The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery is widely recognised as the city's premier venue for art exhibitions. All national museums and art galleries in Wales are free to enter, so you can soak up our history and take up one of many trips organised by Swansea University's Students' Union. The Taliesin Arts Centre sits at the heart of Singleton Park Campus and hosts regular performances, mainstream and alternative cinema screenings, and the award-winning Egypt Centre, home to a collection of over 5,000 Egyptian Antiquities.
SAILS works with colleagues across Swansea University to ensure inclusive learning, teaching and assessment is accessible to all; all students have access to the opportunities available; and all students are supported to reach their full potential.
Our projects support:
Access – Enabling individuals from all backgrounds to enter and transition into higher education (see our outreach activities).
Retention – Supporting students to stay at university and complete their studies.
Progression – Ensuring students have the inclusive academic and pastoral support to progress from level to level.
Outcomes – Supporting students to achieve the best degree outcomes they can.
Swansea University has prestigious strategic partnerships with other Universities such as the University of Texas, Austin and Houston and the pioneering partnership with Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble which focuses on areas such as medicine, computer science and energy. By working with leading global universities on collaborative research, staff and student exchange programmes and teaching partnerships Swansea University can offer opportunities such as student mobility and joint PhD programmes.
Swansea University boasts a global reach and reputation and works with partners around the globe to deliver world-class research, enhanced opportunities for learning and teaching, and life-changing opportunities for students. It has three International Strategic Partnerships in France, the USA and China. These partnerships are distinctive because of the breadth and depth of the collaborations which encompass research, teaching and mobility across a wide range of subject areas. Its other international partnerships focus on specific subjects or activities and include a double degree programme with Trent University in Canada, collaborations in Sport and Exercise Science with the University of Canberra in Australia, and membership of the Jiangsu–UK 20+20 World-Class University Consortium, a group of more than 30 leading universities from the UK and Jiangsu province in China.
Our Virtual Open Days provide a great opportunity for you to explore our beautiful campuses, meet our teaching staff and get a real insight into what it's like to be a student at Swansea University.
https://www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate-virtual-open-day/
Tours can be provided and will be led by an experienced Student Ambassador who will be happy to answer your questions. Please request this service when you contact the department so that we can build it into your visit. We require a minimum of 2 weeks notice to organise a guided campus tour.
ido@swansea.ac.uk
