University · Swansea, United Kingdom

Swansea University

Public research university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

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About

instance of	public research university open-access publisher charitable organization
inception	1920
language used	English

Location and contact

country	United Kingdom
located in the administrative territorial entity	Swansea
coordinate location	51.6097, -3.9806
historic county	Glamorgan
official website	http://www.swansea.ac.uk/

People and numbers

count of students	18,445
employees	2,500 3,448 · 2025 Earlier figures (6) 3,661 · 2024 3,643 · 2020 3,652 · 2019 3,405 · 2018 3,045 · 2017 2,798 · 2016

Rankings and recognition

ranking	307 · QS World University Rankings · 2024 Earlier figures (2) 425 · QS World University Rankings · 2023 440 · QS World University Rankings · 2022

Finances

total revenue	£325,645,000 · 2025 Earlier figures (9) £381,610,000 · 2024 £412,628,000 · 2023 £340,086,000 · 2022 £360,665,000 · 2021 £317,501,000 · 2020 £352,300,000 · 2019 £308,217,000 · 2018 £278,153,000 · 2017 £296,292,000 · 2016
donations	£460,000 · 2025 Earlier figures (9) £839,000 · 2024 £282,000 · 2023 £432,000 · 2022 £251,000 · 2021 £245,000 · 2020 £200,000 · 2019 £435,000 · 2018 £129,000 · 2017 £457,000 · 2016
funder	Open Society Foundations · prize money: $60,000 · award rationale: to support the continued operation of the Grantee's Global Drug Policy Observatory unit · 2021 Open Society Foundations · prize money: $70,000 · award rationale: to support the continued operation of Grantee's Global Drug Policy Observatory unit · 2019 Open Society Foundations · prize money: $99,516 · award rationale: to support the design, delivery and activities of the Grantee’s Executive Programme on Human Security and Drug Policy for Afghanistan · 2019 Open Society Foundations · prize money: $50,000 · award rationale: to support the continued operation of the Drug Policy Observatory unit of the Swansea University. · 2018

Structure and memberships

child organization or unit	Swansea University Medical School
has part(s)	Egypt Centre - Swansea University Academi Hywel Teifi
affiliation	University of Wales
member of	ORCID, Inc. · October 2023 Jisc Digital Preservation Coalition European University Association Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association 2 more Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment University and College Union · membership number: WA070

Other facts

exact match	https://findthatcharity.uk/orgid/XI-ROR-053fq8t95
number of volunteers	76 · 2025 Earlier figures (2) 97 · 2024 134 · 2020

Images and media on Wikimedia Commons (2)

coat of arms image	Swansea University coat of arms.png
image	Great Hall at Swansea University Bay Campus.jpg Bay Campus Accommodation.jpg Bay Campus.jpg Singleton Abbey refurbishment.jpg

Wikimedia and technical details (7)

Commons category	Swansea University
topic's main category	Category:Swansea University
category for alumni of educational institution	Category:Alumni of Swansea University
on focus list of Wikimedia project	Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher
IPv6 routing prefix	2001:630:2c2::/48
IPv4 routing prefix	137.44.0.0/16
social media followers	55,727 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 62489200 · 6 February 2023 Earlier figures (3) 53,628 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 62489200 · 21 February 2022 50,457 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 62489200 · 10 January 2021 41,858 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 62489200 · 10 May 2018

Identifiers in other databases (42)

ARWU university ID	Swansea-University
Baidu Tieba name	斯旺西大学 · number of works: 64,778 · 16 March 2023
BBC News topic ID	c50znx8v83dt
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID	12233726r
Charity Commission no.	1138342 · since 11 October 2010
Crunchbase organization ID	swansea-university
Dialnet author ID	1987694
Facebook username	swanseauniversity
Freebase ID	/m/01v3k2
GND ID	10366966-8
Google Maps Customer ID	11740923726872591940
Google Scholar organization ID	16660946388469754448
GRID ID	grid.4827.9
HAL structure ID	322817
IdRef ID	031042821
Instagram username	swanseauni
ISNI	0000000106588800
J9U entity ID	987007269092505171 987011910438405171
KISTI ID	K000206600
Library of Congress Authorities ID	nb2008023740 · subject named as: Swansea University
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)	39586589
National Library of Wales Authority ID	university-college-of-swansea-council university-of-wales-swansea university-of-wales-swansea-2
Open Funder Registry funder ID	501100001317
OpenAlex ID	I39586589 P4310311758 · subject named as: Swansea University
QS World University ID	swansea-university
Quora topic ID	Swansea-University
Ringgold ID	7759
RoMEO publisher ID	3205
ROR ID	053fq8t95
SNARC ID	Q16688
subreddit	swanseauni · language of work or name: English · subject named as: Swansea University · 23 May 2023
Times Higher Education World University ID	swansea-university
U-Multirank university ID	swansea-university
UK Parliament thesaurus ID	82319 · subject named as: Swansea University
UK Provider Reference Number	10007855
VIAF cluster ID	142940247 127618199
Weibo user ID	swanseauni · has characteristic: verified account or profile · subject named as: 斯旺西大学
WhatDoTheyKnow organisation ID	swansea_university · subject named as: Swansea University
X (Twitter) username	SwanseaUni · country: United Kingdom · number of subscribers: 41,858 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 62489200 · 10 May 2018
Zhihu topic ID	20522851 · subject named as: 斯旺西大学
‎Scilit organization ID	160
‎Yale LUX ID	group/d4f342da-0450-48ef-b2fc-173ecb06a11c