University of Southampton

Overview

• It is a is a research university in Southampton, England.

• The university’s origins date back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862, On 29 April 1952, the institution was granted full university status, allowing it to award its own degrees.

• The university has seven teaching campuses. The main campus is located in the Highfield area of Southampton and is supplemented by four other campuses within the city.

• The University of Southampton currently has 15,790 undergraduate and 6,925 postgraduate students making it the largest university by higher education students in the South East region.

• The other university in the region is Solent University. It takes an hour and half to travel from London to Southampton by train.

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• In the 2019/20 international university rankings, Southampton ranked 97th (QS World University Rankings), 122nd (Times Higher Education World University Rankings), 114th (CWTS Leiden Ranking)and 101–150 (Academic Ranking of World Universities). In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, the university was ranked 18th in the United Kingdom for average quality of research submitted, 11th for research power and 8th for research intensity.

• The university is a pert of the Russell group of International universities. In 2019 it ranked 205th among the universities around the world by SCImago Institutions Rankings.

• Its business school is AMBA and AACSB acredited. The University of Southampton is cited as being the UK’s leading university for engineering.

• The Guardian ranked the university at number 1 in the UK for Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Naval Architecture, Electronic and Electrical Engineering in June 2010.

• In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework assessing the research output of 154 British Universities and Institutes, Southampton was ranked 18th for GPA (15th among Russell Group Universities), 11th for research power (11th among Russell Group Universities), and 8th for research intensity (7th among Russell Group Universities).

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Of University of Southampton

• George Buckley, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive of 3M.

• Rob White, deputy managing director engine at Renault F1.

• Adrian Newey, Technical Director, Red Bull Racing Formula One team.

• Dominic Mohan, editor of the newspaper The Sun.

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