Wales International Consortium

Wales for Success

Quality Education

Higher Education in Wales UK represents exceptional quality and has an established reputation for excellence in teaching, learning and research.


Wales has over thirty centres of excellence and expertise offering applied research and consultancy to business and industry; and to local and national government.

Within the Wales International Consortium there are the following Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) results:

13      5*departments

41      5 departments

37      4 departments

There are also 66 departments rated excellent for teaching under the Teaching Quality Assessment (TQA).

Wales offers a number of the top research specialisations in the country including an award winning Film school, the leading Civil Engineering department, the leading Optometry & Vision Sciences department, the leading Architecture school, two of the top rated Psychology schools, one of the leading International Politics departments, one of the top Materials Technology departments, three of the top Theology and Religious Studies schools and a world renowned Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research.

Wales also offers the national Music and Drama conservatoire of Wales, the leading "new university", a Government Charter Mark holding university, one of the largest and most progressive library schools in Britain, two business schools that achieved a Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) and a renowned Manufacturing Engineering Centre.

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