Cardiff University

Cardiff University

contributes
£696 million

to the UK economy.


Contributes
£498 million

to the local economy.

This is part of the estimated
£900 million

contributed by higher education to the city of Cardiff.

It directly employs
6,040
people.

But it actually creates
9,360
local jobs.

And in total it generates
13,355
UK jobs.

There are
33,190
students.

It's behind
25
graduate start-up businesses.

It also supports
1,624
other organisations through knowledge exchange.


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UK parliamentary constituency for Cardiff University:
Cardiff South and Penarth


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Note: all employment figures presented are Full-Time Equivalents. This means that part-time workers are counted pro-rata based on the proportion of full-time hours that they work. This enables a common currency to be established, which adjusts for working hours of staff across universities as well as of other workers.



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