Introduction
Sheffield Hallam University is one of the UK's most progressive and innovative universities.
We pride ourselves on making a difference - to our students, our staff and to the businesses we work with. Our research and business ideas, alongside our sought after graduates, contribute to the economic and social development of both our region and to the UK as a whole.
Our teaching is first-rate and is supported by our world-class applied research. Our students are a diverse group and benefit from a tailored approach that helps them to get the most from their studies. We offer top quality teaching and learning facilities and the ability to learn flexibly in a way that best suits their needs. For example, we are one of the UK's leading universities in e-learning and offer a range of distance learning and part time courses as well as the more traditional full time courses.
Our industry partners choose Sheffield Hallam because of our flexible, business led approach and our high quality research, facilities and students. Our partners include Sony, BP, NHS, Network Rail, Cisco, SAP and Microsoft.
Our facilities are state-of-the-art and we have invested heavily in new technology to ensure that our technological capability matches the cutting-edge approach of our teaching. We are recognised as a Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Learning, e-learning and employability.
Sheffield Hallam plays a key role in the city and region in which it operates. We are located in both heart of Sheffield and its leafy suburbs and our 28,000 students add to the vibrancy and diversity of the city.
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Our campuses
Right in the heart of Sheffield's busy city centre is the University's City Campus, a welcoming modern environment with some of the finest learning and teaching facilities in Europe.
Around this hub revolves a flourishing, diverse academic community. Our second campus, only a couple of miles away, is a complete contrast. The tranquil Collegiate Campus is set among lawns and trees in one of Sheffield's leafiest suburbs - just as typical of this city, England's greenest, as the bustling city centre.
In May 2005 we opened the impressive Health and Wellbeing Building at Collegiate Crescent Campus. The £15 million " beacon for health and social care education" was officially opened by University Chancellor, Professor the Lord Winston and provides world-class facilities for our health and social care students.
Plans for further development of both campuses are already well advanced with the University planning to replace its third campus at Psalter Lane with a new home for the Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Sciences at City Campus.
It's not only the University environment that's popular with students - the city of Sheffield is a big attraction too.
Home to two universities with more than 50,000 students, plus Europe's largest further education college and the headquarters of Learning Direct (UfI), Sheffield is very much a learning city. It's one of the country's most in-demand student destinations, and once they arrive students enjoy the Sheffield experience so much that a higher proportion stay on to live and work here than in any other city outside London.
Lifelong learning
Our interest in our students continues for life. Every former student of the University or one of our founder institutions automatically joins our worldwide network of alumni as soon as he or she graduates and remains an important member of the University community. Membership of our Alumni Association is free and lifelong.
Our Alumni Office staff help more than 120,000 people, whose names are on our fast-growing database, keep in touch with each other and with new developments and further study opportunities here at the University. Members often use our alumni website to make contact and update themselves.
More than half of our students are mature students, and we're northern England's second-largest part-time postgraduate education provider. Some postgraduate students are sponsored by employers who can see the business sense of developing their staff's potential. Others are investing in developing their own skills and knowledge to boost their career prospects.
Soon every Sheffield Hallam University student will be able to keep his or her own e-learning profile for life and log on to it at any time. So the University will be able to offer its alumni exactly the sort of educational opportunities they want at any stage in their careers, and then deliver that education wholly or partly on line.
Our graduates' most frequent first career destinations are manufacturing, business, education, IT, property, healthcare, social work, wholesale and retail trades, finance and hospitality - but the list is almost endless.
| Notable alumni |
| Nick Park CBE Animator, creator of Wallace and Gromit |
| Richard Caborn MP Minister of Sport |
| David Mellor International designer and cutlery-maker |
| Howard Wilkinson Former Football Association Technical Director |
| Bruce Oldfield OBE Fashion designer |
| Martin Narey Comissioner for Correctional Services and former Director of the Prison Service |
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