The University of Southampton is already one of the top 10 research universities in the UK and has achieved consistently high scores for its teaching and learning activities. Teaching takes place across a broad range of disciplines and our students are led by academics who push research boundaries. Students benefit from the latest knowledge and expertise and this, together with the University’s strong entrepreneurial culture, makes the Southampton learning experience especially valuable. The University has more than 20 Academic Schools which are organised into three Faculties.Our research has spawned twelve successful spin-out companies since 2000, three of which have been floated on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) with a combined market capitalisation value of £160 million.

We have seven highly respected professional consultancy units, which are much in demand by both commercial and public sector organisations. Combined they employ 125 staff and generate £7.5m revenue per annum.

We have been one of the most successful universities in the country in winning grants from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Technology Programme, now run by the Technology Strategy Board. A total of almost £20 million has been awarded over the last two years, including £6 million in collaboration with our spin out companies. The DTI technology programme invests directly in new and emerging technologies and has been designed to encourage businesses to work collaboratively with each other or with academic partners. Innovative technologies supported through grants to Southampton academics include stem cell research, lasers, nanotechnology, alternate fuel development and the reduction of aircraft noise.

Southampton also boasts a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) portfolio worth over £1.7 million. The University has an extremely high success rate in gaining KTP funding: on average, 60 per cent of KTP proposals are funded on first application but Southampton continues to enjoy a success rate which is substantially higher.
The University of Southampton was founded by Henry Robinson Hartley, the son of a Southampton wine merchant, who left his estate to the Corporation of Southampton. The University celebrated its Golden Jubilee on 22 January 2002. By the time the celebrations started, Southampton had become one of the leading universities in the UK, with a reputation for academic excellence, attracting students and researchers from all over the world.

The School of Management

The School of Management at the University of Southampton is ranked among the top management schools in the United Kingdom. The University of Southamptons School of Management is internationally renowned for academic excellence and is recognised as one of the UKs leading centres for management education.

We pride ourselves on our international reputation for our academic and teaching excellence. We offer a range of high quality undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in such areas as Accounting, Banking, Finance, Information Systems, Management Sciences, and Risk. Many of our postgraduate programmes are recognised as Specialist Masters Programmes by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
In 2005 the Schools MBA programmes gained accreditation from the Association of MBAs (AMBA). The Schools PhD programme has also been recognised as a mode A outlet by the ESRC.

Our international reputation has been further enhanced through our research centres: the Centre for Risk Research; Centre for Research in Accounting, Accountability and Governance (CRAAG); Centre for Narrative Studies; Centre for Higher Education Management and Policy at Southampton (CHEMPaS); the Quantitative Financial Risk Management Centre; Centre for Operational Research, Management Science & Information Systems (CORMSIS), which is one of the largest and most prestigious groups of its kind in the UK.