page_title: University of Sheffield
section_title: Coat of arms
hierarchical_section_title: University of Sheffield / Organisation / Coat of arms
caption_attribution_description: English: ShefuniCourtofarms
context_page_description: The University of Sheffield is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Its history traces back to the foundation of Sheffield Medical School in 1828, Firth College in 1879 and Sheffield Technical School in 1884. University College Sheffield was subsequently formed in 1897 by the amalgamation of the three institutions and gained royal charter as University of Sheffield in 1905.
  Sheffield is a multi-campus university predominantly over two campus areas in close proximity: the Western Bank and the St George's. The annual income of the institution for 2018–19 was £677.2 million of which £154.8 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £657.9 million. Sheffield ranks among the top 10 of UK universities for research grant funding, and it has become number one in the UK for income and investment in engineering research according to new data published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. It is one of the top 7 British universities by postgraduate student enrollment along with UCL, King's, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Oxford.
context_section_description: The arms of the university was matriculated on 28th June 1905. It is on an azure shield with a gold-edged book inscribed with the Latin Disce Doce (Learn and Teach) at its centre, a sheaf of eight silver arrows on either side (from the arms of the city), the Crown of Success and the White Rose of York. Below is a scroll carrying the motto Rerum cognoscere causas (To Discover the Causes of Things; from Georgics by Latin poet Virgil), which was also the motto of Firth College since 1879. In heraldic terminology, the official coat of arms is blazoned as follows:
  Azure an open book Proper edged Gold inscribed with the words "Disce Doce" between in fess two sheaves of eight arrows interlaced saltireways and banded Argent in chief an open crown Or and in base a rose also Argent barbed and seeded Proper.
  The current university's logo, consists of a redrawn version of the coat of arms and the name of the institution, is introduced in 2005, the centenary year of the university. However, the logo should not supersede and be confused with the coat of arms, which remains the official heraldic symbol of the university.
caption: The University Coat of Arms, displayed on the front of Mappin Building
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