University of Sheffield | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 23/06/2019

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Sheffield


00:02:35 1 History
00:02:44 1.1 Origins
00:04:07 1.2 Royal charter
00:05:11 1.3 Development since 1905
00:08:12 1.4 1990s onwards
00:10:01 2 Buildings and locations
00:10:11 2.1 Main (Western Bank) campus
00:12:03 2.1.1 The Octagon Centre
00:13:03 2.1.2 Firth Court and Alfred Denny Building
00:14:21 2.1.3 Dainton and Richard Roberts Buildings
00:14:53 2.1.4 Hicks Building
00:15:37 2.1.5 Arts Tower and Western Bank Library
00:16:47 2.2 St George's
00:17:57 2.2.1 Sir Frederick Mappin Building
00:18:38 2.2.2 St George's Church
00:19:11 2.3 West of the main campus
00:20:01 2.4 Bartolomé House
00:21:10 2.5 Libraries and museums
00:23:36 2.6 Manvers campus
00:23:56 2.7 Gallery
00:24:04 3 Organisation
00:24:14 3.1 Faculties and departments
00:24:32 3.1.1 School of Architecture
00:25:22 3.1.2 Management School
00:26:03 3.1.3 Medical School
00:26:49 3.2 Governance
00:28:42 3.2.1 Vice-Chancellors
00:29:43 3.2.2 Finances
00:30:17 3.3 Coat of arms
00:31:15 3.4 Branding
00:31:59 4 Academic profile
00:32:09 4.1 Reputation and rankings
00:37:07 4.2 Admissions
00:38:00 4.3 Research partners
00:39:23 4.4 Involvement with the arms trade
00:40:07 5 Student life
00:40:16 5.1 Students' Union
00:42:24 5.2 Student accommodation
00:42:58 5.3 Varsity sports
00:43:50 6 People associated with the university
00:44:01 6.1 Notable alumni and academics
00:44:12 6.2 Nobel prizes
00:45:57 7 References in Popular Culture
00:46:18 8 See also



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The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University) is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It received its royal charter in 1905 as successor to the University College of Sheffield, which was established in 1897 by the merger of Sheffield Medical School (founded in 1828), Firth College (1879) and Sheffield Technical School (1884).Sheffield is a multi-campus university predominantly over two campus areas: the Western Bank and the St George's. The university is organised into five academic faculties composed of multiple departments. It had 20,005 undergraduate and 8,710 postgraduate students in 2016/17. The annual income of the institution for 2017–18 was £691.8 million of which £197.5 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £636.8 million. Sheffield ranks among the top 10 of UK universities for research grant funding.Sheffield was placed 75th worldwide and 13th in the UK according to QS World University Rankings and 106th worldwide and 12th in the UK according to Times Higher Education World University Rankings. It was ranked 12th in the UK amongst multi-faculty institutions for the quality (GPA) of its research and for its Research Power in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework. In 2011, Sheffield was named 'University of the Year'  in the Times Higher Education awards. The Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2014 ranked the University of Sheffield 1st for student experience, social life, university facilities and accommodation, among other categories.It is one of the original red brick universities, a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities, the Worldwide Universities Network, the N8 Group of the eight most research intensive universities in Northern England and the White Rose University Consortium. There are eight Nobel laureates affiliated with Sheffield and six of them are the alumni or former long-term staff of the university.