University of Sheffield

The University of Sheffield is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, whose history traces back to the Sheffield Medical School of 1828, Firth College of 1879 and the Sheffield Technical School of 1884. These three institutions were amalgamated as the University College of Sheffield in 1897, and the institution received a royal charter as the University of Sheffield from King Edward VII in 1905. It has 21 academic schools organised into five faculties and is one of the original redbrick universities and a founding member of the Russell Group. Its city campus lies just west of the centre of Sheffield and grew from two sites, Western Bank and St George's, the second centred on engineering. For engineers it is notable as the home of a civil engineering department whose present Centenary Professor of Civil Engineering is René de Borst, the computational mechanics specialist.