Some facts we thought you ought to know about us:

• Top for Jobs - we outperform most other UK universities with 91.3 percent of our students in work or further study within six months of graduating.

• Sixty per cent of our research work has been rated as being of 'international significance', and in some cases 'world leading' according to the recent Research Assessment Excercise.

• Swansea is the safest place to study in Wales and the sixth safest in Wales and England according to The Complete University Guide's annual league table of crime for 2009.  Swansea came sixth out of 21 towns and cities which had at least two universities.

• Our students fall in love with Swansea and over a third opt to stay and work in the city

• We are a university by the sea

• We are in the top ten most affordable universities according to the Independent newspaper cost-of-living survey.

• We offer free, non-means tested Residential Bursaries of up tp £1,500, available for 2010 entry.

• We have one of the UK's oldest art schools with a reputation streaching back over 150 years, that is at the forefront of creativity and employment in the UK today.

• We are best for learning and teaching according to an i-graduate survey of twenty UK universities, scoring an impressive 87.5 per cent satisfaction rating.

• We were one of the few universities in the UK to gain Fairtrade status in 2008.

• We are one of the most environmentally friendly universities in the UK.

• we are the best university in the UK for low energy use

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