Cardiff University
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Cardiff University (Welsh: Prifysgol Caerdydd) is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales. It was established in 1883 as the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and became a founding college of the University of Wales in 1893. It was renamed University College, Cardiff in 1972 and merged with the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology in 1988 to become University of Wales College, Cardiff and then University of Wales, Cardiff in 1996. In 1997 it received degree-awarding powers, but held them in abeyance. It adopted the operating name of Cardiff University in 1999; this became its legal name in 2005, when it became an independent university awarding its own degrees.
Welsh: Prifysgol Caerdydd | ||||||||||||
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Motto | Welsh: Gwirionedd, Undod a Chytgord[1] | |||||||||||
Motto in English | Truth, Unity and Concord[1] | |||||||||||
Type | Public | |||||||||||
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Endowment | £46.2 million (2023)[2] | |||||||||||
Budget | £627.2 million (2022/23)[2] | |||||||||||
Chancellor | Jenny Randerson[3] | |||||||||||
Vice-Chancellor | Wendy Larner | |||||||||||
Academic staff | 3,400 (2021/22)[4] | |||||||||||
Administrative staff | 3,535 (2021/22)[4] | |||||||||||
Students | 33,985 (2021/22)[5] | |||||||||||
Undergraduates | 23,765 (2021/22)[5] | |||||||||||
Postgraduates | 10,220 (2021/22)[5] | |||||||||||
Location | , 51.49°N 3.18°W / 51.49; -3.18 | |||||||||||
Campus | Urban | |||||||||||
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Website | cardiff | |||||||||||
Cardiff University is the only Welsh member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities.[6] Academics and alumni of the university have included two heads of state or government and two Nobel laureates. As of 2023,[update] the university's academics include 17 fellows of the Royal Society, 11 fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering, seven fellows of the British Academy, 21 fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences and 32 fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences.[7]