University of Sheffield

About the organization

It is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It received its royal charter in 1905 as a 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). It had 20,005 undergraduate and 8,710 postgraduate students in 2016/17.