all academic matters, such as teaching and research standards. The executive, led by the vice-chancellor, handles the day-to-day administration and implementation of strategic decisions.
The current vice-chancellor is Edmund Burke. He is supported by a deputy vice-chancellor and four pro-vice-chancellors.
Various committees support these bodies in specialized areas, and students are actively involved in governance through representation on key committees. The university is also accountable to external bodies like the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales.
== Academic profile ==
=== Research ===
The university's research expertise in the areas of materials science and predictive modelling was enhanced in 2017 through a collaboration with Imperial College London and the formation of the Nuclear Futures Institute at Bangor with the award of £6.5m in funding under the Welsh Government's Ser Cymru programme.
The university-owned £20m Science Park on Anglesey, M-Sparc was completed in March 2018, which will support the development of the region's low-carbon energy sector.
=== Rankings ===
The 2014 Research Excellence Framework recognised that more than three-quarters of Bangor's research is either world-leading or internationally excellent. Based on the university submission of 14 Units of Assessment, 77% of the research was rated in the top two tiers of research quality, ahead of the average for all UK universities.
In 2017, Bangor University became the only university in Wales to be rated 'Gold' by the new Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) which means that the university is deemed to be of the highest quality found in the UK, providing "consistently outstanding teaching, learning and outcomes for its students."
In recent years, Bangor has been rated highly by its students in two independent surveys of student opinion. In the National Student Survey, the university has been consistently ranked highly both within Wales and in the UK higher education sector. In 2017, Bangor University's students placed the …
