Student satisfaction
The National Student Survey (NSS) gathers feedback from mainly final-year undergraduates about their time in UK universities. Highlights from our NSS 2024 results include:
- 90% of students responded that teaching staff were good at explaining things
- 87% of students responded that their course was intellectually stimulating
- 87% of students were positive about learning resources provided by the University
- 85% of students were positive about the teaching on their course
Research and innovation excellence
We are a research-intensive university, with continued substantial growth in research funding and seventh in the UK for the total value of The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) grants. We are also a founding partner of SETsquared, the university business incubator ranked number one in the world by UBI Global.
According to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021:
- 92% of our research is world leading or internationally excellent, which assessed the quality of research in UK higher education institutions
- we are in the top 10% of UK universities and 4th in the Russell Group for impact demonstrating the real-world benefit of our research
- over 97% of our research environment is world-leading or internationally excellent
Honours and awards
Southampton is one of the first universities in the UK to be named an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education. The Gold Award complements the University's existing status as a Centre of Excellence for Cyber Security Research, which it first obtained in 2012.