Cardiff is also very popular among students at Cardiff University. Cardiff University is situated next to the Cathays railway station. This is the main university of Wales and it is also known as the University of Wales, Cardiff. Ranked in the top 140 universities in the world, Cardiff University is regularly rated as excellent for its research facilities. In fact it is part of the Russell Group of Research Universities. The university is located in Cathays Park, although when it was first formed as the University College of South Wales & Monmouthshire there was debate about whether to locate it in Cardiff or Swansea. To this day there is a strong rivalry between the two universities and every year a varsity match is played between Cardiff and Swansea.
When the University first opened in 1883 it offered studies in French, German, Biology, Chemistry,