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Why we're University of the Year

1st in the Russell Group

2024 National Student Survey (NSS), based on aggregate responses

Why choose the University of Sheffield

A world top-100 university

12th in the UK and 98th in the world in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025

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We offer an experience that our students value highly: a world-class learning and teaching environment that fosters academic excellence, personal growth, and a vibrant student life.

University of the Year 2024

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A masters from Sheffield means in-depth knowledge, advanced skills, and the confidence to achieve your ambitions.

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At Sheffield, you’ll join a supportive community of scholars who share your passion. Our reputation for excellence attracts some of the best minds in the world.

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Research

Uniting experts to address infertility in the Gambia and beyond

Our research collaboration is improving fertility awareness, guiding policy and transforming practice in the Gambia, where societal expectations of becoming a parent soon after marriage are high.

Improving fertility awareness

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Our centres of excellence are taking an interdisciplinary approach to the biggest challenges facing the planet.

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Our researchers are making life-changing discoveries and solving problems that have a global impact.

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News

26 February 2025

University of Sheffield leads the UK in engineering research income and investment

The University of Sheffield leads the UK in engineering research income and investment, according to the latest figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).

Remtec's 2-axis tracking agrivoltaic system in north Italy

26 February 2025

Solar technology could meet UK’s electricity needs without sacrificing farmland

Ambitious government plans for the expansion of solar farms could be achieved without sacrificing farmland, according to new research on a technology that could meet the UK’s electricity needs four times over.

A close up of the remains of a stone tool which humans used 150,000 years ago

26 February 2025

Scientists find earliest evidence that our ancestors lived in rainforests 150,000 years ago

The earliest evidence of humans living in tropical rainforests in Africa, around 150,000 years ago, has been published in a new study in Nature by researchers at the University of Sheffield.

female gynocologist looking at a mammogram

20 February 2025

£1 million funding boost for research into preventing breast cancer recurrence

Researchers working to understand why some breast cancers come back years later and form incurable secondary tumours, have received a £1 million funding boost.

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