University of Sheffield

The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield Universityor TUOS) is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

Its history traces back to the foundation of Sheffield Medical School in 1828, Firth College in 1879 and Sheffield Technical School in 1884. University College of Sheffield was subsequently formed by the amalgamation of the three institutions in 1897 and was granted a royal charter as University of Sheffield in 1905 by King Edward VII.

The university is one of the original red brick universities and a founding member of the prestigious Russell Group.

It is also part of the Worldwide Universities Network, the N8 Group of the eight most research intensive universities in Northern England and the White Rose University Consortium.

Sheffield has been ranked as a top 100 university in the world by QS for the last fifteen years.