The University of South Wales is a public university in Wales, UK. It was formed on 11 April 2013 from the merger of the University of Glamorgan and the University of Wales, Newport. The university is the second-largest university in Wales in terms of its student numbers and offers around 200 undergraduate and postgraduate courses. At the university’s formation, it was the sixth-largest university in the United Kingdom, with 33,500 students.
Ranked 66 in The Guardian UK University Rankings and 1001 out of 25,000 universities around the world in THE World University Rankings 2021, USW has been awarded QAA, a UK Quality Assurance Mark, after reviewing for higher education academic and pedagogical standards.
The Research Excellence Framework in 2014 concluded that the university’s research output is ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’, placing the university’s research strengths in the creative industries, social policy and criminology, and sports and exercise science.