The University of Wales, Aberystwyth is a public university, a Member Institution of the federal University of Wales. It was one of the first university institutions to be established in Wales. The university was founded in 1872 as University College Wales and initially there were just 26 students. In 1894 the college joined the University of Wales as a founder member (prior to this students had been submitted for examinations of the University of London). The Department of History and Welsh History, and the Institute of Mathematics and Physics can trace their beginnings back to the formation of the University in 1872. The Department of Law was established in 1901. Some famous Alumni are: 

§  Alan Cox, programmer, major contributor to the Linux kernel
§  Prince Charles, Prince of Wales
§  Jan Pinkava, Oscar winning animator, Pixar
§  Alhaji Kabbah, president of Sierra Leone
§  Frederick Soddy, Nobel Prize Winner
 

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1. The text was extracted from Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia under GNU Free Documentation Licence.

2. Photo:  The old College © Frantisek Staud 2002