Aberystwyth University
Prifysgol Aberystwyth | |||||||||||||
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Former names | University of Wales, Aberystwyth | ||||||||||||
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Motto | Welsh: Nid Byd, Byd Heb Wybodaeth | ||||||||||||
Motto in English | A world without knowledge is no world at all | ||||||||||||
Type | Public | ||||||||||||
Established | 1872 (as The University College of Wales) | ||||||||||||
Endowment | £ 41.7 million (2013)[1] | ||||||||||||
Chancellor | Emyr Jones Parry | ||||||||||||
Vice-Chancellor | April McMahon | ||||||||||||
Students | 7,720 (2019/20)[2] | ||||||||||||
Undergraduates | 6,605 (2019/20)[2] | ||||||||||||
Postgraduates | 1,115 (2019/20)[2] | ||||||||||||
Location | , , United Kingdom | ||||||||||||
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Website | www.aber.ac.uk | ||||||||||||
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Aberystwyth University (Welsh: Prifysgol Aberystwyth) is a public research university located in Aberystwyth, Wales. Aberystwyth was a founding Member Institution of the former federal University of Wales. The University has almost 8,000 students studying across its six academic Institutes.[3]
Founded in 1872 as University College Wales, Aberystwyth it became a founder member of the University of Wales in 1894 and changed its name to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. In the mid-1990s, the university again changed its name to the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. On 1 September 2007, the University of Wales ceased to be a federal university and Aberystwyth became independent again.[4]
Aberystwyth University is ranked 79th in The Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide for 2015, up from 93rd in 2014.[5] The Times Higher Education World University Rankings placed it in the 301—350 group for 800 university rankings, compared with 351—400 the previous year,[6] and the QS World University Rankings placed it in the 501—550 group for 2015/2016, compared with 601—650 the previous year. [7] In 2015, UK employers from “predominantly business, IT and engineering sectors” listed Aberystwyth equal 49th in their 62-place employability rankings for UK graduates, according to a Times Higher Education report. [8]
History
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Funded through public and private subscriptions, and with five regional committees (London, Manchester, Liverpool, North and South Wales) guaranteeing funds for the first three years' running costs, the University opened in October 1872 with 26 students. Thomas Charles Edwards was the Principal. In October 1875, chapels in Wales raised the next tranche of funds from over 70,000 contributors.[9] Until 1894, when the college joined the University of Wales as a founder member, students applying to Aberystwyth sat the University of London's entrance exams.[10] Women were admitted in 1884.
In 1885, after a fire in what is now known as Old College, the Gogerddan Estate was donated to the University and would become the location of Penglais Campus, the University's principal campus. Incorporated by Royal Charter in 1893, the University installed the Prince of Wales as Chancellor in 1896, the same year it awarded an honorary degree to British Prime Minister William Gladstone.
The university's Coat of Arms dates from the 1880s. The shield features two red dragons to symbolise Wales, and an open book to symbolise learning. The crest, an eagle or phoenix above a flaming tower, may signify the College's rebirth after the 1885 fire.[11] The motto is Nid Byd, Byd Heb Wybodaeth (a world without knowledge is no world at all).
In the early 1900s the University added courses that included Law, Applied Mathematics, Pure Mathematics, and Botany. The Department for International Politics, which Aberystwyth says is the oldest such department in the world, was founded in 1919.[12] By 1977, there were eight Fellows of the Royal Society on the University's staff, including Gwendolen Rees, the first Welsh woman elected an FRS.
The Department of Sports and Exercise Science was established in 2000. Joint honours Psychology degrees were introduced in September 2007, and single honours Psychology in 2009.
In 2011 the university appointed a new vice chancellor [13] under whom the academic departments were restructured as larger subject-themed institutes.
Organisation and administration
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Departments and institutes
- Art[14]
- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences[15]
- Computer Science[16]
- School of Education and Lifelong Learning[17]
- English and Creative Writing[18]
- Modern Languages[19]
- Geography and Earth Sciences[20]
- History and Welsh History[21]
- Information Studies[22]
- International Politics[23]
- Law and Criminology[24]
- School of Management and Business[25]
- Mathematics[26]
- Physics[27]
- Psychology[28]
- Theatre, Film and Television Studies[29]
- Welsh[30]
Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences
The Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) is a research and teaching centre at Aberystwyth University for the study of biological, environmental and rural sciences.
IBERS brings together staff from the Institutes of Rural Sciences and Biological Sciences at Aberystwyth University and the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research (IGER). Around 360 research, teaching and support staff conduct basic, strategic and applied research in biology from the level of genes and other molecules to the impact of climate change and bio-energy on sustainable agriculture and land use. They also provide skills training. There is formal collaboration with the College of Natural Sciences in Bangor University.[31]
Aberystwyth says IBERS has a long history of substantial investment in facilities, and that its geographic location allows easy access to natural habitats and managed landscapes. The library (including the nearby National Library of Wales) and IT network are available to the University as a whole, and there is a new building.[32]
The Institute is located in two areas; one at the main teaching Penglais campus and another rural research hub at the Gogerddan campus.[33] Both facilities were designed by Pascall+Watson architects in London.[34][35]
IBERS won the Outstanding Contribution to Innovation and Technology category award at the Times Higher Education Awards 2013.[36]
Department of Computer Science
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The Department of Computer Science, founded in 1970, conducts research in Computational Biology and Robotics[37]
AberMUD, the first popular internet-based MUD, was written in this department of the university by then-student Alan Cox.
The Department also has an Open Source computing course.[38]
Department of Mathematics
Aberystwyth says it has taught mathematics since the university first opened, and that it was the first university to teach it in Wales. The courses are accredited by the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, and the curriculum enables students to take joint courses with other departments in the University and also to specialise in areas such as mathematical physics. Staff expertise in research covers a broad range of mathematics, including operator algebras, solid and fluid mechanics, and quantum mechanics. Much research activity is interdisciplinary, involving collaborators in physics, computer science and engineering and partners in industry.[39]
Department of Physics
Physics was first taught at Aberystwyth as part of Natural Philosophy, Astronomy, and Mathematics under N. R. Grimley, soon after the foundation of the University College.[40] It became a department in 1877, under the headship of F. W. Rudler.[40] The department was located in the south wing of what is now the old college,[40] but later relocated to the Physics Building on the Penglais Campus. The first chair in Physics was offered to D. E. Jones in 1885.[40] Prior to WW1 much of the early research in the Department was undertaken in Germany. Early research in the 1900s was concerned with electrical conductivity and quantum theory, later moving into thermal conductivity and acoustics.[40] In 1931 the department hosted the Faraday Centenary Exhibition.[40] E. J. Williams was appointed chair of Physics in 1938 where he continued his research into sub-atomic particles using a cloud chamber.[41] Following World War II research was concerned with mechanical and nuclear physics, later moving into air density, experimental rocket launching equipment, and radar.[40]
Department of Modern Languages
Aberystwyth has taught modern languages since 1874. French, German, Italian and Spanish courses are taught at both beginners' and advanced levels, in a research-active academic environment. One of its research projects is the Anglo-Norman Dictionary,[42] based in Aberystwyth since 2001 and available online since 2005.
Department of Information Studies
The College of Librarianship Wales (CLW) was established at Llanbadarn Fawr in 1964 in response to a recommendation for the training of bilingual librarians that was made in the Bourdillon Report on Standards of public library service in England (H.M.S.O., 1962). The College grew rapidly and claims to be Europe's largest institution for training librarians.[43] The independent College merged with the University in August 1989. The new Department has since introduced courses by open, part-time and distance learning to supplement full-time student numbers.
Since 1956 the University has also offered professional training in archive administration and records management, first as a Diploma course and since 1995 as a modular Master's course run in partnership with the National Library of Wales and the Ceredigion Record Office, who contribute to the taught courses, support the practical work of the students and assist with research projects.
Department of International Politics
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The Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth was founded in 1919, and claims to be the first such department in the world.[44] It was founded shortly after World War I with the stated purpose of furthering political understanding of the world in the hope of avoiding future such conflicts. This goal led to the creation of the Woodrow Wilson chair of International Politics.[45]
The department has 500 undergraduate students and 120 postgraduates studying at master's degree and PhD levels[46]
The Department has had various notable academic staff in the field including E. H. Carr, Leopold Kohr, Andrew Linklater, Ken Booth, Steve Smith and Michael Cox. In 2006, a new building for the Department of International Politics was completed and opened on the Penglais Campus.
Ken Booth and Michael Foley edit the journal International Relations.
Department of Law and Criminology
The Department of Law and Criminology is housed in the Elystan Morgan Building on the Llanbadarn campus. Founded in 1901, it includes the Centre for Welsh Legal Affairs, a specialist research centre. The Department says all its lecturers are engaged in research, and the International Journal of Biosciences and the Law and the Cambrian Law Review are edited in the Department. Recently the Department has worked closely with the Quality Assurance Agency in testing new processes for teaching quality assessment. The Department offers the two-year LL.B scheme to graduates in a discipline other than law.
In 2006 the Department started a Legal Practice Course (the LPC is a requirement for practice as a solicitor in England and Wales). In 2013 the Department joined the Department of Information Studies and the School of Management and Business at a new campus at Llanbadarn Fawr, as part of a newly created Institute of Management, Law and Information Studies.
The Guardian University Guide 2013 league table for law ranked Aberystwtyth 89th out of 97 in the UK,[47] and the 2015 table ranks it 78th.[48]
Department of Psychology
In 2007, Aberystwyth added Psychology to its portfolio of module schemes by establishing a Centre for Applied Psychology within the Department of International Politics. The department became independent of International Politics in 2008 and currently offers a single honours degree in Psychology and a joint honours degree with Criminology. The department had the stated aim of full British Psychological accreditation by 2013. Despite not having accreditation, the department came joint 1st for student satisfaction in the UK, but also achieved 100% for overall satisfaction.
Department of Sport and Exercise Science
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Established in 2001, the Department of Sport and Exercise Science delivers undergraduate programmes in sport and exercise science, performs research in the sport and exercise sciences, and provides consultancy services to individuals and organisations in Wales and the rest of the UK.
The Department is active in research, with members of staff involved in various projects including collaborative work with other Universities and organisations.
Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies
The Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, formerly the Department of Drama, was established in 1973 and incorporates a BBC studio built in 2001. The Department offers four main degree schemes in Drama and Theatre Studies, Scenography and Theatre Design, Film and Television Studies and Media and Communication Studies. The university says this department is one of the largest of its kind in the UK.[49]
Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences
The Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences (IGES), formed in 1989 from the former Departments of Geography (established in 1917) and Geology. houses the E. G. Bowen map library, containing 80,000 maps and 500 atlases. Aberystwyth says it was the first department to offer students single honours degrees in human geography and physical geography.[50][better source needed]
Research is conducted by the Glaciology Centre, which has strong international links, includes the study and mapping of glacial landforms on Mars.
Institute of Rural Sciences
The Institute of Rural Sciences, formerly located on Llanbadarn Campus, was formed by the 1995 merger of the Welsh Agricultural College, which had hitherto been independent, and the University's Department of Agriculture. The Institute merged with the Institute of Biological Sciences and the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research to form IBERS in April 2008.
School of Education and Lifelong Learning
In teaching and research the School of Education and Lifelong Learning focuses on the educational, cultural, linguistic and social needs of Wales. It collaborates with independent providers in the community, partnership schools, unitary authorities, and other local and national educational institutions, as well as other contacts in the UK, Europe and the wider world. The School runs lifelong learning classes, and also has under its umbrella the Mid-Wales Welsh for Adults Centre.
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School of Management and Business
In 1998 the Department of Economics (founded 1912), the Department of Accounting and Finance (founded 1979) and the Centre for Business Studies merged to create the School of Management and Business. The MBA programme at Aberystwyth was established in 1985 and is accredited by the AMBA. The School's suite of postgraduate programmes in Management, Marketing and International Business are MBM (Masters in Business Management) accredited by the Association of MBAs.[51] In 2013 the School joined the Department of Information Studies and the Department of Law and Criminology at a new campus at Llanbadarn Fawr, as part of a newly created Institute of Management Law and Information Studies. Shortlisted for ‘Business School of the Year Times Higher Education Awards (2014).[52]
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School of Art
Art has been taught at Aberystwyth since 1917, when it was one of only a few British universities concerned with the Art and Crafts Movement. Today, the School has a portfolio of undergraduate and postgraduate degree schemes, allowing either specialised or interdisciplinary studies of Fine Art, Art History, and Museum and Gallery Studies. The School is located in the listed Edward Davies building (originally a chemistry laboratory) and houses studios for painting and photography, darkrooms, print workshops; also a Mac suite, lecture theatres, seminar rooms, a museum, two modern galleries, and extensive art archives as resources for students.[53] The Guardian University Guide 2015 ranks Aberystwyth's School of Art 60th out of 62 in the UK.[54]
Campuses
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The main campus of the University is situated on Penglais Hill, overlooking the town of Aberystwyth and Cardigan Bay, and comprises most of the University buildings, Arts Centre, Students’ Union, and many of the student residences. Just below Penglais Campus is the National Library of Wales, one of Britain's five legal deposit libraries.
The Llanbadarn Centre is located approximately one mile to the east of the Penglais Campus, overlooking the town and Cardigan Bay to the west, with the backdrop of the Cambrian Mountains to the east. Llanbadarn Centre hosts the Department of Law and Criminology, the Department of Information Studies, and the School of Management and Business, as part of the Institute of Management Law and Information Studies. Additionally, the Llanbadarn Campus is the site of the Aberystwyth branch of Coleg Ceredigion, a further education college, and not part of the University.
At Gogerddan, on the outskirts of town is located the University's major centre for research in land based sciences and the main centre for the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Science.
The School of Art is located between the Penglais Campus and the centre of Aberystwyth, in what was originally the Edward Davies Chemical Laboratory. A listed building, the Edward Davies Building is one the finest examples of architecture in Aberystwyth.
The site of the original university is the 'Old College', currently the subject of the 'New Life for Old College' project which aims to transform it into an integrated centre of heritage, culture, learning and knowledge exchange.
The university also holds an international branch campus in Mauritius. Aberystwyth Ltd. operating as Aberystwyth University (Mauritian Branch Campus) runs the campus. The institution is registered as a private one by the Tertiary Education Commission of Mauritius.
Student residences
Most of the student residences are on campus, with the rest in walking distance of the campus and Aberystwyth town centre. Accommodation ranges from 'traditional' catered residences to en-suite self-catered accommodation, and from budget rooms to more luxurious studio apartments. All have wired access to the University's computer network and a support network of residential tutors.
Penglais Campus:
- Cwrt Mawr (self-catered flats, single and twin rooms, capacity c.600)[55]
- Penbryn (traditional catered hall, capacity 350)[56]
- Rosser (self-catered en-suite flats, capacity 332), expanded in 2011 to include postgraduate flats in Rosser G (capacity 60)[57]
- Trefloyne (self-catered flats, capacity 146)[58]
Pentre Jane Morgan (the Student Village)
- Almost 200 individual houses arranged in closes and cul-de-sacs. Each house typically accommodate 5 or 6 students.[59]
Fferm Penglais Student Residence
- Purpose-built student accommodation with studio apartments and en-suite bedrooms. An area of accommodation within the Fferm Penglais Student Residence is set aside for students who are Welsh learners or fluent Welsh speakers, and wish to live in a Welsh speaking environment.
Town:
- Brynderw (self-catered flats, capacity 146)
- Seafront Residences (self-catered flats located on the seafront and Queen's Road, overall capacity 720–800 including the redeveloped Alexandra Hall and Clarendon House Postgraduate residence). The original Seafront residences (Plyn' and Caerleon) were destroyed by fire in 1998. Seafront residences include Alexandra, Aberglasney, Balmoral, Blaenwern, Caerleon, Carpenter, Ceredigion, Clarendon, Glyndwr, Pumlumon and Ty Gwerin Halls.[60]
The University also owns several houses, such as Penglais Farmhouse (Adjacent to Pentre Jane Morgan) and flats in Waun Fawr, which are let on an Assured Shorthold Tenure to students with families. Disabled access rooms are available within the existing student village.
Reputation and academic profile
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Complete (2025)[61] | 86 ![]() |
Guardian (2025)[62] | 110 ![]() |
Times / Sunday Times (2024)[63] | 79 ![]() |
Global rankings | |
QS (2025)[64] | 501–550 |
THE (2024)[65] | 301–350 ![]() |
Aberystwyth University is ranked 79th in The Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide for 2015, up from 93rd in 2014.[66] The Times Higher Education World University Rankings placed it in the 301—350 group for 800 university rankings, compared with 351—400 the previous year,[67] and the QS World University Rankings placed it in the 501—550 group for 2015/2016, compared with 601—650 the previous year. [68] In 2015, UK employers from “predominantly business, IT and engineering sectors” listed Aberystwyth equal 49th in their 62-place employability rankings for UK graduates, according to a Times Higher Education report. [69]
Aberystwyth University was shortlisted in four categories in the Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards (THELMAs) (2015).[70]
Aberystwyth University has been awarded the Silver Award under the Corporate Health Standard (CHS), the quality mark for workplace health promotion run by Welsh Government.[71]
The University has been awarded an Athena SWAN Charter Award, recognising commitment to advancing women's careers in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM) in higher education and research.[72]
In 2007 the University came under criticism for its record on sustainability, ranking 97th out of 106 UK higher education institutions in that year's Green League table.[73] In 2012 the university was listed in the table's "Failed, no award" section, ranking equal 132nd out of 145.[74] In 2013 it ranked equal 135th out of 143, and was listed again as "Failed, no award".[75]
Following the University's initiatives to address sustainability,[76] it received an EcoCampus [77] Silver Phase award in October 2014.
In October 2015, the University’s Penglais Campus became the first University campus in Wales to achieve the Green Flag Award.[78] The Green Flag Award is a UK-wide partnership, delivered in Wales by Keep Wales Tidy with support from Natural Resources Wales, and is the mark of a high quality park or green space.
In 2013, the University and College Union alleged bullying behaviour by Aberystwyth University managers, and said staff were fearful for their jobs. University president Sir Emyr Jones Parry said in a BBC radio interview, "I don't believe the views set out are representative and I don't recognise the picture." He also said, "Due process is rigorously applied in Aberystwyth." Economist John Cable resigned his emeritus professorship, describing the university's management as "disproportionate, aggressive and confrontational". The singer Peter Karrie resigned his honorary fellowship in protest, he said, at the apparent determination to "ruin one of the finest arts centres in the country", and because he was "unable to support any regime that can treat their staff in such a cruel and appalling manner."[79]
Notable people
List of Presidents
- 1872–1895, Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare
- 1895–1913, Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel of Hatchlands
- 1913–1926, John Williams, 1st Baronet, of the City of London
- 1926–1944, Edmund Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies
- 1944–1954, Thomas Jones (T. J.)
- 1955–1964, David Hughes Parry
- 1964–1976, Ben Bowen Thomas
- 1977–1985, Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos
- 1985–1997, Melvyn Rosser
- 1997–2007, Elystan Morgan, Baron Elystan-Morgan
- 2007–present, Emyr Jones Parry
List of Principals and Vice-Chancellors
- 1872–1891 Thomas Charles Edwards
- 1891–1919 Thomas Francis Roberts
- 1919–1926 John Humphreys Davies
- 1927–1934 Henry Stuart-Jones
- 1934–1952 Ifor Leslie Evans
- 1953–1957 Goronwy Rees
- 1958–1969 Thomas Parry
- 1969–1979 Goronwy Daniel
- 1979–1989 Gareth Owen
- 1989–1994 Kenneth O. Morgan, Baron Morgan of Aberdyfi
- 1994–2004 Derec Llwyd Morgan
- 2004–2011 Noel Lloyd
- 2011 – present April McMahon
Notable staff
- Henry Bird, lecturer in art history (1936–1941)
- Ken Booth, Professor of International Politics
- Edward Carr, Historian & Woodrow Wilson Professor of International Politics
- Henry Walford Davies, first Gregynog Professor of Music, composer, broadcaster, Master of the King's Music
- John Davies, Welsh historian
- Hannah Dee, lecturer in Computer Science
- R. Geraint Gruffydd, Chair of Welsh language and literature (1970–1979)
- David Russell Hulme, Director of Music (from 1992), conductor and musicologist
- Robert Maynard Jones, Chair of Welsh language (1980 until retirement)
- D. Gwenallt Jones, poet, Welsh lecturer
- Leopold Kohr, economist and political scientist
- Dennis Lindley, Professor of Statistics (1960–1967)
- David John de Lloyd, Gregynog Professor of Music, composer
- Alec Muffett, systems programmer (1988–92)
- Lily Newton, Professor of Botany
- Ian Parrott, Gregynog Professor of Music (1950–1983), composer and musicologist
- Joseph Parry, Professor of Music, composer and conductor
- T. H. Parry-Williams, poet and author; Professor of Welsh (1920–1952)
- F. Gwendolen Rees FRS Professor of Zoology
- William Rubinstein, Professor of History
- Marie Breen Smyth, a reader in political violence in the International Politics Department
- Richard Marggraf Turley, poet, professor of English Literature, the University's first Professor of Engagement with the Public Imagination
- Dame Marjorie Williamson, Principal Royal Holloway College, University of London 1962–73
Notable alumni
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Royalty
- HRH Charles, Prince of Wales
- HRH Tunku Muhriz Ibni Almarhum Tunku Munawir, the 11th Yang Di Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan
- HRH Tunku Naquiyuddin, Tunku Laxamana (Regent) of Negeri Sembilan
- HE Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, former president of Sierra Leone
Academics
- E. G. Bowen, geographer
- Edward Collingwood, mathematician, scientist
- Alan Cox, Programmer (major contributor to the Linux kernel) (1980s)
- D.J. Davies (1893–1956), economist, socialist Plaid Cymru activist
- Andrew Gordon naval historian
- Deian Hopkin, historian
- David Russell Hulme, Director of Music (from 1992), conductor, musical historian
- David Gwilym James Vice-Chancellor, University of Southampton 1952–1965
- Emrys Jones, Professor of Geography at the LSE
- T. Harri Jones, poet
- Roy Kift, dramatist, writer
- Mary King, political scientist
- Michael MccGwire, international relations specialist and Naval Commander
- Twm Morys, poet
- Tavi Murray, glaciologist, received the Polar Medal.
- Ernest Charles Nelson, botanist
- David Hughes Parry (1893–1973) Vice-Chancellor, London University (1945–1948)
- T. H. Parry-Williams, poet, author, academic
- Jan Pinkava, Oscar-winning animator, Pixar, (1981–1985)
- Frederick Soddy, Nobel Prize Winner in chemistry (1921)
- John Meurig Thomas FRS, chemist, professor, author
- Paul Thomas, founding Vice-Chancellor of University of the Sunshine Coast
- Nigel Thrift, geographic scholar, Vice Chancellor of Warwick University
- David John Williams, writer
- Glanmor Williams, historian
- Rev. John Tudno Williams, theologian
- Waldo Williams, poet
- Rev. William Richard Williams, theologian
- Christine James, first female Archdruid of Wales
Military
- Brigadier-General Lewis Pugh Evans VC CB CMG DSO & Bar JP DL. [citation needed]
- Colonel Bob Stewart DSO, British United Nations commander in Bosnia, broadcaster and author. [citation needed]
Lawyers
- Tun Salleh Abas, Lord President of the Federal Court of Malaysia (1984–1988)
- Ellis Ellis-Griffith, 1st Baronet, former barrister and Liberal politician.
- Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones, Attorney General for England and Wales (1966–1970) and Lord Chancellor (1974–1979)
- Samuel Thomas Evans, barrister, judge, Liberal politician
- John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon, Chancellor of the University of Glamorgan and Attorney General for England and Wales (1997–1999)
- Alun Talfan Davies, former lawyer, writer and publisher.
Civil servants
- Timothy Brain, former Chief Constable for Gloucestershire
- Goronwy Daniel, former civil servant and academic
Politicians
- Joe Borg, European Union Fisheries and Maritime affairs Commissioner [citation needed]
- Captain Roderic Bowen, former Liberal MP and Deputy Commons Speaker
- Nick Bourne former Welsh Assembly Member and Leader of the Welsh Conservatives
- David Davies, 1st Baron Davies, Liberal politician and philanthropist [citation needed]
- Gwynfor Evans, first Member of Parliament for Plaid Cymru
- Steve Gilbert, Liberal Democrat MP for St Austell and Newquay 2010–15
- Neil Hamilton, former Conservative MP, barrister
- Lady Sylvia Hermon, Ulster Unionist politician
- Emlyn Hooson, Baron Hooson, former Liberal politician
- Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos, former Labour MP and parliamentarian
- Dato' Seri Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysian Home Minister
- Dan Jarvis, Labour MP for Barnsley Central
- Carwyn Jones, First Minister of Wales, Assembly Member for Bridgend
- Gerry MacLochlainn Sinn Féin politician
- John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon, Labour politician
- Elystan Morgan, Baron Elystan-Morgan, former Labour MP for Ceredigion
- Roland Moyle, Labour politician, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Clement Attlee
- Dan Rogerson, Liberal Democrat politician
- Molly Scott Cato, Green Party MEP
- Ahmed Shaheed, Maldivian politician.
- Gareth Thomas, former Labour MP
- Gareth Thomas, Labour MP for Harrow West
- Mark Williams, Liberal Democrat member of Parliament for Ceredigion (2005–present)
- Steven Woolfe, UK Independence Party MEP
Business people
- Belinda Earl, former CEO of Debenhams was appointed CEO of Jaeger in 2004
- Lance Batchelor, former CEO of Domino's Pizza Group, currently serving as CEO of Saga Group
- David Prosser, former CEO of Legal & General[80]
- Tom Singh, owner and CEO of New Look (store)
Sports people
- Cath Bishop, former professional British rower, turned civil servant
- John Dawes, Rugby player, who captained Wales and the British Lions
- Carwyn James, Welsh and British and Irish Lions rugby coach (1949?–1951)
- Leigh Richmond Roose, International footballer
- Berwyn Price, International 110m hurdles athlete, Commonwealth Games & World Student Games gold medallist
- Angela Tooby, Silver medal World Cross-country Championships, Auckland
Artists, entertainers and authors
- Neil Brand, writer, composer, and a silent film accompanist
- Shân Cothi, operatic singer and actress
- Jane Green, best-selling fiction writer (1987)
- Sarah Hall, writer and poet
- David Russell Hulme, conductor and musicologist
- Aneirin Hughes, actor
- Emrys James, actor
- Alex Jones, presenter of the BBC television programme The One Show
- Melih Kibar, former Turkish composer
- Alun Lewis, Second World War writer and poet
- Hayley Long, fiction writer
- Sharon Maguire, film director of Bridget Jones's Diary
- Robert Minhinnick, poet, essayist, novelist and translator
- Amy Parry-Williams (1910–1988), singer, writer
- Rachel Roberts, actress
- Lisa Surihani, Malaysian actress
See also
- Aberystwyth Guild of Students
- Aberystwyth University Debating Union
- List of universities in Wales
- Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Further reading
- Iwan Morgan (ed.), The College by the Sea (Aberystwyth, 1928)
- E.L. Ellis, The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth: 1872–1972, University of Wales Press ISBN 978-0-7083-1930-7 (2004)
- Ben Bowen Thomas, "Aber" 1872–1972 (University of Wales Press, 1972)
- J Roger Webster, Old College Aberystwyth: The Evolution of a High Victorian Building (University of Wales Press, 1995)
- Emrys Wynn Jones, Fair may your future be: the story of the Aberystwyth Old Students’ Association 1892–1992 (Aberystwyth Old Students’ Association, 1992)
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External links
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- Aberystwyth University – Official website
- Aberystwyth University Profile
- Aberystwyth Guild of Students – Students' Union