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Swansea University ((ウェールズ語:Prifysgol Abertawe)) is a public research university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. It currently offers about 330 undergraduate courses and 120 post-graduate courses to undergraduate and postgraduate students.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Free statistics online - HESA - Higher Education Statistics Agency )〕 It was chartered as ''University College of Swansea'' in 1920,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=library.wales.org: Home )〕 as the fourth college of the University of Wales and in 1948 became the first campus university in UK. In 1996, it changed its name to the ''University of Wales Swansea''〔 following structural changes within the University of Wales. The title of ''Swansea University'' was formally adopted on 1 September 2007 when the University of Wales became a non-membership confederal institution and the former members became universities in their own right. Swansea University has two campuses located adjacent to the coast at the north of Swansea Bay. The Singleton Park Campus is set in the grounds of Singleton Park to the west of Swansea city centre. The Bay Campus, which opened in September 2015, is located adjacent to Jersey Marine Beach to the east of Swansea city centre. It is the third largest university in Wales in terms of number of students. In 2014 Swansea was named University of the Year in the WhatUni.com Student Choice Awards and shortlisted in the same category in the Times Higher Education awards. ==Campus== The university is divided between two campuses. The 46-acre Singleton Park campus, set in parkland two miles west of Swansea city centre, houses the colleges of Arts and Humanities, Human and Health Sciences, Medicine, Science and Law. It lies on the eastern approach to the Gower Peninsula, the UK’s first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and is also home to the Taliesin Arts Centre. The 65-acre, £450 million beachfront science and innovation Bay Campus opened up in September 2015 and houses the College of Engineering and School of Management, the Great Hall auditorium and a new library. It lies three miles east of Swansea city centre in the County Borough of Neath Port Talbot.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Swansea University, Bay Campus )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Swansea University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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