Swansea University 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. It was chartered as
University College of Swansea in 1920, 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.