A University of Southampton occurs as British university situated just northward of the city of Southampton, on the south-coast of the United Kingdom. the university has a globe-wide reputation for high-quality locate, & occurs as member of the Russell Group of research-led British universities. Based on data from a Sunday Times newspaper league table, Southampton is perennially around the top ten for the food and drug administration (its primary focus), when in 2002 it came Eleventh overall (away from about 200 British institutions). Southampton occurs as member of the [http://www.wun.ac.uk Worldwide Universities Network], & has close links sustaining MIT in the United States.

A university's independent buildings come placed in the big places on the Highfield Campus, but a university has more campuses elsewhere in a city: at Bolderwood (biological sciences), New College (erst LaSalle Union College), Southampton General Hospital and on the waterfront at the National Oceanography Centre. It besides has the campus within Winchester which is the at home of the university's ticket & performing arts departments (formerly the independent institution Winchester School of Art, but now an integral part of the university). A Avenue Campus houses most of a Humanities cases taught at the University, including History, English, Philosophy & Modern Languages. A Centre for Language Learn is depending at Avenue Campus, however there exists likewise an equally big & easily-equipped branch at New College. Music is taught on the Highfield Campus.

Southampton is probably better known as an engineering, science & social science university. In the virtually all recent RAE assessment (2001), it has the lone engineering faculty in a country to receive the greatest rating (5*) through everthing disciplines. Based on data from a Times Higher Educational Supplement, Southampton has the 2nd big search income among British universities for the physical sciences and mathematics, & a third big the food and drug administration income for engineering and technology. A university is besides hard witharound more disciplines - in archaeology, the 1st 3 prof by Southampton late became heads of archeology at Oxford, Cambridge and University College London. A department of music is as well famous, benefiting from either a Turner Sims concert hall, placed in the midst of the university's Highfield campus. Additionally, a university is residence to the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (formerly Southampton Oceanography Centre), the leading the food and drug administration centre for oceanography. A university pages wonderful emphasis in inter-disciplinary cooperatiin & on collaboration using industry. This is virtually all evident in the University's Centre for Enterprise & Innovation, which is jointly dog by Faculty of Engineering & a School of Management. This focus has recently been augmented per establishment of the separate [http://www.ife.soton.ac.uk Institiute for Entrepreneurship].

A discoverer of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is a Prof of Computer Science at the University of Southampton. A University's Prof David Payne FRS CBE invented the optical amplifier, while forgoing which fibre optic cables would non act. Prof Payne is likewise Chairwoman of Photonics, a commercial company which occurs as spin-byproduct of this the food and drug administration. Previous head of the Department of Electronics & Computing, Prof Tony Hey CBE, is now Corporate Vice-President of Microsoft UK. A second Southampton Prof, Martin Fleischmann, Professor of Electrochemistry, come to ill fame within 1989 while, along sustaining the the food and drug administration collaborator, he claimed to stand produced cold fusion in a laboratory. Subsequent investigator were unable to substantiate his claims.

Faculties, schools, and centres

Faculty of Engineering, Science & Mathematics [http://www.chem.soton.ac.uk School of Chemistry] [http://www.civil.soton.ac.uk School of Civil Engineering and the Environment] [http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS)] [http://www.soton.ac.uk/EngineeringSciences School of Engineering Sciences] (includes Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering & Ship Science) [http://www.geog.soton.ac.uk School of Geography] [http://www.maths.soton.ac.uk School of Mathematics] [http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk School of Ocean and Earth Science] [http://www.phys.soton.ac.uk School of Physics and Astronomy] [http://www.isvr.soton.ac.uk Institute of Sound and Vibration Research] [http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk Optoelectronics Research Centre] National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (home of the School of Ocean & Globe Science) Southampton E-Science Centre

Faculty of Law, Arts & Social Sciences [http://www.socsci.soton.ac.uk School of Social Sciences] [http://www.management.soton.ac.uk School of Management] [http://www.education.soton.ac.uk School of Education] [http://www.law.soton.ac.uk School of Law] [http://www.wsa.soton.ac.uk School of Art] (depending at Winchester School of Art) [http://www.humanities.soton.ac.uk School of Humanities]

Faculty of Medicine, Health & Life Sciences [http://www.sobs.soton.ac.uk School of Biological Sciences] [http://www.sohp.soton.ac.uk School of Health Professions and Rehabilitation Sciences] [http://www.som.soton.ac.uk School of Medicine] [http://www.nursingandmidwifery.soton.ac.uk School of Nursing and Midwifery] [http://www.psychology.soton.ac.uk School of Psychology] [http://www.hciu.soton.ac.uk Health Care Innovation Unit]

[http://www.s3ri.soton.ac.uk Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute] [http://www.ncrm.soton.ac.uk ESRC National Centre for Research Methods]

History
A University of Southampton hwhen its originside when as a Hartley Institution which was formed in 1862 from the benefaction by a local vintner. Inside 1919 it was renamed Hartley University College, & after University College Southampton. Prior to 1952, the college's degrees were awarded per University of London. Inside 1952, the Queen granted the University of Southampton a Royal Charter to award degrees in its have correct. This conferred to the full university status & manufactured Southampton independent of the University of London. Despite existence one of a go of the "civic" universities, it grew quickly & gained the reputation for the heavy academic approach. It expanded quickly in a period of the Sixties, once newly "plate glass" universities were arise around Warwick, York, Norwich & the total of more web pages.

Architecture
A earliest buildings date back to a 1910s; nevertheless, the centre of the campus is dominated by deuce imposing Thirties buildings by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott - literally in red brick - when a original Fifties masterplan & a majority of the left buildings come by Sir Basil Spence in a lightly, Mies van der Rohe style. The recently masterplan for the Highfield campus was drawn higher within 1998 by illustrious designer Rick Mather who has also contributed occasionally of the freshly buildings. A campus has expanded quickly on top a endure decade, using numerous notable newly buildings including a single designed by Norman Foster. the campus retains a super big locality of park where come scattered significant 20th century sculptures by Barbara Hepworth, FE McWilliams, Justin Knowles, Nick Pope and John Edwards.

Student Union
A University of Southampton Student's Union (SUSU), is sited in two buildings close to the Hartley Library, one, the West Building, dating back to the 1940s in a red brick style, to complement the Hartley Library opposite; the Main Building was built in the 1960s in the Basil Spence masterplan. This was extended sustaining freshly cabaret & cinema facilities around 2002. Inside Might 2002 (when many tries running back many years), it chose to disaffiliate itself from either a NUS, whom SUSU believed to be 'political period-wasters' & 'bureaucratic'. A student radio station, SURGE (Southampton University Radio from either Glen Eyre), broadcasts from either either Glen Eyre halls, to the north of the university from studios in the independent union building. SURGE broadcasts throughout a season on the 1287AM & the cyberspace and twice-yearly in FM. A student newspaper is the Wessex Scene, which comes out biweekly. Cases come held in The Cube, a Union's nightspot, & in the ''Stag's Head'', a Union's saloon. National itinerant elastic play in the Garden Court in the West Building.

Famous alumni
Laura Bailey (Model) Liz Barker (television presenter) Guin & Miriam Batten (Olympic Rowers) Roger Black (Athlete) John Denham (Politician) Sue Douglas (Journalist) Dr. Astrid Fischel (Vice-President, Costa Rica) Guy Fordham (Hockey Star) Jeremy Hardy (Comedian) Baroness Hooper (Politician) John Inverdale (Sports Journalist) Stuart Maister (CEO, Broadview Communications) John Anthony McGuckin (Orthodox Christian priest, scholar, and poet) John Nettles (Actor) Adrian Newey (Technical Director, McLaren Formula A single team) Chris Packham (Wildlife Presenter) Dr. Stanley Pons (Claimed to have found Cold Fusion in 1989) Jon Potter (Hockey Star) Jon Sopel (Journalist) Stella Tennant (Model) Lord Tonypandy (Politician) Dr. Alan Whitehead (Politician)

Motto
Strenuis Ardua Cedunt (A Heights Yield to Endeavour)

Corporate slogan
At a Cutting Edge of Innovation