Cardiff Metropolitan University
Cardiff Metropolitan University has been ranked as the best university in the UK for sustainability in People and Planet’s Green League 2022/23. People & Planet’s Green League is the only comprehensive and independent league table of all UK universities ranked by environmental and ethical performance. To add to this accolade, Cardiff Met has just been ranked as a gold tier university in Uswitch’s Green Universities Report 2022, which highlights UK universities’ commitment to sustainability.
Times Higher Education (THE) awarded Cardiff Met the title of UK & Ireland University of the Year 2021. The title recognised Cardiff Met as a progressive university with an excellent student experience, staff culture and impactful research and innovation.
Cardiff Met was also awarded the title of The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide Welsh University of the Year 2021, recognising the University’s progress in delivering on its ambitious strategy and associated range of developments over recent years.
Cardiff Met was the first university in Wales to be designated as a University of Sanctuary and has an established track record of providing ‘Sanctuary Scholarships’ for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and academic staff. In October 2022, Cardiff Met was re-accredited as a University of Sanctuary, with City of Sanctuary UK describing the institution as “…a fantastic example of providing welcome to scholars and academics at risk”.
In 2022 Cardiff Metropolitan University pledged £400,000 to support the role of education in peace-building in Ukraine. The University has also signed a twinning agreement with H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University (Skovoroda University) – facilitating the sharing of resources and support in a collective gesture of solidarity and reciprocity to help Ukrainian institutions, staff and students.
Cardiff Metropolitan University is the first university in the UK to divest from all companies that profit from border violence. Our Ethical Investment Policy states that Cardiff Met will never invest in the border industry.
Cardiff Met has a strong purpose – to deliver high quality and high impact practice-focused and professionally recognised education, research and innovation in partnership with our students and industry.
A key element of the University’s offering to students is the ‘Cardiff Met EDGE’ – a core offering that enables every single student to develop Ethical, Digital, Global and Entrepreneurial skills, experience, knowledge, confidence and resilience.
Cardiff Met incorporates five academic schools across two sites at Llandaff and Cyncoed in Cardiff: Cardiff School of Art and Design; Cardiff School of Sport & Health Sciences; Cardiff School of Education & Social Policy; Cardiff School of Management, and Cardiff School of Technologies, as well as the ZERO2FIVE Food Industry Centre, the International Centre for Design Research (PDR) and The Centre for Health, Activity and Wellbeing Research (CAWR), Cardiff Met’s newest research centre.
The University has over 26,000 students from over 100 countries enrolled on programmes located in Cardiff and 16 collaborative partners around the globe, where students study for Cardiff Met degrees. Its commitment to enhancing the role of education in international relations and cultural diplomacy is aimed at enabling students to develop into global citizens.
The University is the first in Wales to be awarded both the prestigious Small Business Charter and the Social Enterprise mark in recognition of its work with business, and its commitment to supporting students in enterprise and entrepreneurship activities.
With a strong track record for sustainable initiatives and ‘green credentials’, Cardiff Met climbed 63 places in the independent sustainability league table People & Planet 2021, coming first in Wales and joint 5th in the UK. The University is now developing a Master Plan to deliver Net Zero for its campuses by 2030.
Cardiff Met’s Global Academies (Health and Human Performance; Food Science, Safety and Security; and Human Centred Design) bring together research expertise to develop inter-disciplinary, international and impactful approaches to some of the most entrenched challenges affecting us locally, nationally and internationally.