Cardiff Metropolitan University delivers professionally recognised degrees, together with impactful research and innovation, in art and design, business and management, education and public services, sport and health sciences, and technologies and engineering. A Top 10 UK university for international students (Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2024) with a diverse, close-knit community of more than 16,000 students from 143 countries. Cardiff Met has a number of research and enterprise centres, including the Food Industry Centre, the Welsh Centre for Tourism Research, and the National Centre for Product Design and Development Research.
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Cardiff Metropolitan University delivers professionally recognised degrees, together with impactful research and innovation, in art and design, business and management, education and public services, sport and health sciences, and technologies and engineering. A Top 10 UK university for international students (Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2024) with a diverse, close-knit community of more than 16,000 students from 143 countries. Cardiff Met has a number of research and enterprise centres, including the Food Industry Centre, the Welsh Centre for Tourism Research, and the National Centre for Product Design and Development Research.
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Aside from the fact that the University has a dynamic and cosmopolitan atmosphere with students from over 140 countries across the world, it's the city itself that is the major attraction for students - Cardiff is one of Europe's most exciting and multicultural destinations. Ranked best – and friendliest – city in the UK Cardiff was named as both the UK’s best and friendliest city in the 2023 Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Choice Awards. Students have also recognised the opportunities for employment in Cardiff after graduation – 9696.3% of graduates find employment or further study within 6 15 months of graduation (Graduate Outcomes Survey 2024). Students love the lecturers here too - the University has a Silver Teaching Excellence Framework (TFE).
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Cardiff Metropolitan University delivers professionally recognised degrees, together with impactful research and innovation, in art and design, business and management, education and public services, sport and health sciences, and technologies and engineering. A Top 10 UK university for international students (Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2024) with a diverse, close-knit community of more than 16,000 students from 143 countries. Cardiff Met has a number of research and enterprise centres, including the Food Industry Centre, the Welsh Centre for Tourism Research, and the National Centre for Product Design and Development Research.
What students think
Aside from the fact that the University has a dynamic and cosmopolitan atmosphere with students from over 140 countries across the world, it's the city itself that is the major attraction for students - Cardiff is one of Europe's most exciting and multicultural destinations. Ranked best – and friendliest – city in the UK Cardiff was named as both the UK’s best and friendliest city in the 2023 Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Choice Awards. Students have also recognised the opportunities for employment in Cardiff after graduation – 9696.3% of graduates find employment or further study within 6 15 months of graduation (Graduate Outcomes Survey 2024). Students love the lecturers here too - the University has a Silver Teaching Excellence Framework (TFE).
Aside from the fact that the University has a dynamic and cosmopolitan atmosphere with students from over 140 countries across the world, it's the city itself that is the major attraction for students - Cardiff is one of Europe's most exciting and multicultural destinations. Ranked best – and friendliest – city in the UK Cardiff was named as both the UK’s best and friendliest city in the 2023 Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Choice Awards. Students have also recognised the opportunities for employment in Cardiff after graduation – 9696.3% of graduates find employment or further study within 6 15 months of graduation (Graduate Outcomes Survey 2024). Students love the lecturers here too - the University has a Silver Teaching Excellence Framework (TFE).
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