University of Sheffield is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.
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34 Facts About Sheffield University
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University College of Sheffield was formed by the amalgamation of the three institutions in 1897 and was granted a royal charter as University of Sheffield in 1905 by King Edward VII.
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Sheffield University is formed from 50 academic departments which are organised into five faculties and an international faculty.
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Sheffield University is one of the original red brick universities and a founding member of the prestigious Russell Group.
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University of Sheffield was originally formed by the merger of three local institutions: the Sheffield School of Medicine, Firth College, and the Sheffield Technical School.
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Many of the steel-making firms in Sheffield University contributed to funding the Technical School, and research from the school in turn helped develop new processes and products for the companies.
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Sheffield University extended the college by creating new departments and adding new buildings.
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In 1904, steelworkers, coal miners, factory workers and the people of Sheffield donated over £50,000 via penny donations to help found the University of Sheffield.
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The Victoria Sheffield University began to split up as independent universities before this could happen, when Liverpool gained a charter of its own in 1903.
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Sheffield University is one of the six pre-World War One red brick universities, the civic universities founded in the major industrial cities of England.
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Sheffield University then grew slowly until the 1950s and 1960s when it began to expand rapidly.
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In 1987 the university began to collaborate with its once would-be partners of the Victoria Sheffield University by co-founding the Northern Consortium; a coalition for the education and recruitment of international students.
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The Sheffield University Concourse was refurbished in 2019 to replace the 50-year-old paving and walls.
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University of Sheffield is not a campus university, though most of its 430 buildings are located in fairly close proximity to each other.
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Sheffield University campus is composed of an eclectic range of buildings from Victorian style to modernism to contemporary.
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Centre of the university's presence lies one mile to the west of Sheffield city centre, where there is a mile-long collection of buildings belonging almost entirely to the university.
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Sheffield University has currently five faculties comprising 50 departments and 82 research centres and institutes, plus an international faculty.
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The Medical School is located next to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, one of the Sheffield University's teaching hospitals, and the school is associated with Sheffield University Children's Hospital, Northern General Hospital, Weston Park Hospital and Charles Clifford Dental Hospital.
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Sheffield University has an international faculty called CITY College in Thessaloniki, the second largest city of Greece, which is the only faculty operating outside the UK.
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Some schools at Sheffield University had previously their own colours but are no longer used.
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Sheffield University has been described by The Times as one of the powerhouses of British higher education.
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Sheffield University has received the Queen's Anniversary Prize five times in 1998,2000,2002,2007 and 2019.
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University of Sheffield has currently four libraries: Western Bank Library, the Information Commons, Health Sciences Library, and The Diamond, holding a total of 1.
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The University of Sheffield Library is a member of Research Libraries UK.
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William Edgar Allen, a member of the Sheffield University Council, provided £10,000 to build a proper library named Edgar Allen Library, locating beside the main university building.
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The Sheffield University Herbarium is operated by the Department Animal and Plant Sciences, with a collection of preserved plant specimens collected in the late 19th century and early to mid 20th century.
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University of Sheffield has around 250 student exchange partners in nearly 40 countries world-wide including exchange programs with Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Texas at Austin, National University of Singapore, University of Munich and University of Melbourne.
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Sheffield University House, completed in 1963, has been integrated with the university's Students' Union in one single building.
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Annual Sheffield Varsity is an annual varsity match that takes place between sports teams from the university and its rival Sheffield Hallam University starting from 1996.
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Sheffield University won the Varsity competition in 2013, beating Hallam for the first time in ten years.
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In November 2013, the court had a bench consisting of judges all graduated at Sheffield University; the sitting judges were Lord and Lady Justices of Appeal Maurice Kay, Anne Rafferty and Julia Macur.
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Fictionalized version of the University of Sheffield is the setting of the award-winning comic book series, Giant Days.
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