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The University of Wales, Aberystwyth, a Member Institution of the federal University of Wales, was one of the first university institutions to be established in Wales. As of 2005, the university has around 7,000 students spread across eighteen academic departments. It is often known simply as "Aber" to its students. The university's business school is accredited by AMBA. The Department of International Politics, founded in 1919, is the first department of its kind in the world. Today the Department of International Politics is one of the world's largest - and Europe's biggest - in the field. The Department is due to acquire a new purpose built building in summer 2006.
History
The university was founded in 1872 as University College Wales. The first principal was Thomas Charles Edwards 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).
In 1919 the world's first department of international politics was founded at Aberystwyth.
Past professors include R. Geraint Gruffydd, Bobi Jones, E. H. Carr and Leopold Kohr.
In 1989 the College of Librarianship Wales in Llanbadarn became the University's Department of Information and Library Studies. In 1996, the Welsh Agricultural College merged with the University's Department of Agriculture to create the Welsh Institute of Rural Studies. This was subsequently re-named the Institute of Rural Sciences.
AberMUD, the first popular internet-based MUD, was written in the University by then-student Alan Cox.