List of universities in Wales

University status in Wales is conferred by the Privy Council following advice from the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education.

[10] Welsh universities also charge tuition fees capped at £9,000 per year for UK students, unlike other parts of the UK which have fees capped at £9,250, on undergraduate courses.

[13] Wrecsam The total consolidated annual income for Welsh universities for 2020–21 was £1.78 billion of which £230.0 million was from research grants and contracts, with an operating surplus of £74.2 million.

The table below is a record of each university's financial data for the 2020–21 financial year as recorded by the Higher Education Statistics Agency:[15] The below lists the outcome of the latest Research Excellence Framework undertaken in 2021 (the next REF is scheduled for 2028) by the four UK higher education funding bodies.

The rankings are out of 129 institutions across the UK:[16] The following table is a list of Welsh universities by their performance in the three main domestic and three main global university rankings.