University Of South Wales Newport
Newport is only two hours away from london via the m4 while other motorways and dual carriageways connect newport with the north midlands south east and south west england and west wales.
University of south wales newport. Usw is a uk university offering vocationally focused courses and degrees. All are within close proximity and cover the cities of newport and cardiff as well as quieter sites in glyntaff caerleon and treforest. There are a number of multi storey car parks situated around the city campus and the kingsway car park is opposite. The university of wales newport originated in the newport mechanics institute founded in 1841.
The university is the second largest university in wales in terms of its student numbers and offers around 200 undergraduate and. Prifysgol de cymru is a public university in wales with campuses in cardiff newport pontypridd and dubai. Prifysgol cymru casnewydd was a university based in newport south wales prior to the merger that formed the university of south wales in april 2013. At the university s formation it was the sixth largest university in the united.
It was formed on 11 april 2013 from the merger of the university of glamorgan and the university of wales newport. The south wales and monmouthshire school of mines founded in 1913 evolved into the polytechnic of wales before becoming the university of glamorgan in 1992. The university of wales newport welsh. The university had two campuses in newport caerleon on the northern outskirts of the city which was subsequently closed during july 2016 and a 35 million campus on the east bank of the river usk.
The postcode is np20 2bp.