and significance.
Medicine and Life Science continue to be ranked in the UK top five overall at 4th in Allied Health Professions (UOA3), and Mathematics is ranked joint 16th in the UK and is joint top for impact, with 100% rated as outstanding.
Geography is ranked 20th in the UK, climbing 11 places with 90% 4* world-leading or 3* internationally excellent research. A third of the university's units of assessment rated 100% for their outstanding and very considerable impact.
=== Selected research centres and institutes ===
Centre for Nanohealth
Research Institute for Arts and Humanities – which includes the Global Drug Policy Observatory
Institute of Life Sciences
Research Institute for Applied Social Sciences
Welsh Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
SPECIFIC
CSAR
Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI)
== Academic profile ==
=== Rankings and reputation ===
The university is listed as one of the top 500 universities in the World University Rankings. Swansea is ranked 32nd in the 2026 Guardian University Guide.
Swansea University's best ranked departments include Medicine and Mathematics, ranked 4th and 16th respectively in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework. The Law Department also ranks highly, coming in at 22nd in the Times Good University Guide 2019 in the UK, as well as in the 151–200 category in QS World Rankings. Overall, Swansea University is ranked 48th in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.
National Student Survey results (for 2021) rank Swansea 12th in the UK for "overall satisfaction", with 82% saying they are satisfied with their course overall. The survey ranked Swansea number one for Archaeology; Biology (non-specific); English Language; and Others in Business and Management.
Swansea University is top in Wales in the 2023 Guardian University Guide and in the 2022 Student Crowd university rankings, which places it 15th in the UK.
=== International partnerships ===
In recent years, Swansea University has established many partnerships with leading universities in Europe, North America, …
