University of Southampton

PhD Engineering

MSc Digital Humanities (Data Science)

PhD Electronics and Computer Science

Logic in computer science studies formal reasoning as it applies to programs and machines: proof systems, specification languages, verification, type theory, and what can be computed or decided at all. The work is rigorous and symbolic. Graduates often move into software verification, compiler and language design, security research, and academic computer science.

PhD in Health Sciences

Health care is concerned with how health services are organised, delivered and improved, taking in patient needs, clinical practice, ethics, quality and the systems holding it together. Health sciences sit alongside management and social science. Graduates often work in clinical support, health administration, public health bodies and service improvement.

MSci Microbiology

Microbiology studies bacteria, viruses, fungi and other organisms too small to see: how they live, how they cause disease, and how they are used in medicine, agriculture and industry. Laboratory technique is central, from culturing and identification to genetics and analysis. Graduates often work in clinical and research laboratories, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and food safety.

MSc Systems, Control and Signal Processing

Control systems engineering designs the feedback loops that keep machines and processes behaving as intended, from aircraft and robots to chemical plants and power networks. Students study dynamics, modelling, stability, sensors and controller design, supported by mathematics and simulation. Graduates often work in automation, aerospace, energy, robotics and manufacturing.

MSc Sustainability

Sustainable development studies how human needs — energy, food, housing, work — can be met without exhausting the systems everyone depends on. It draws on economics, environmental science, governance and social equity, and asks who bears the cost of each choice. Graduates often work in development organisations, environmental programmes, policy analysis and corporate responsibility.

MSc Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Robotics brings together mechanical design, electronics, control and software to build machines that sense and act in the physical world. Students work on motion, perception, autonomy and the algorithms that link them. Graduates often go into automation, manufacturing, autonomous vehicles, medical devices and research.

MSc Risk Management

Identifying what can go wrong, estimating how likely and how costly it would be, and deciding whether to prevent, retain or transfer it — that is the core of this field. Statistics, finance, law and contract design all feature. Graduates often work in insurance, underwriting, claims, broking, corporate risk and financial regulation.

MSc International Accounting and Sustainability

Accounting deals with how financial information is recorded, verified and reported so that decisions can be made and organisations held to account. Study covers financial and management accounting, auditing, taxation and reporting rules. Graduates often work in accountancy practice, corporate finance teams, audit, tax, and financial management or analysis.

MSc International Accounting and Governance

Accounting deals with how financial information is recorded, verified and reported so that decisions can be made and organisations held to account. Study covers financial and management accounting, auditing, taxation and reporting rules. Graduates often work in accountancy practice, corporate finance teams, audit, tax, and financial management or analysis.

MSc Global Health

Public health concerns the health of populations rather than individual patients: why disease spreads, which conditions cluster where, and what prevention and policy can change. It combines epidemiology, statistics, health promotion and the social causes of illness. Graduates often work in health authorities, non-governmental organisations, research and health programme management.

MSc Finance and Investment

Finance concerns how money is raised, invested and managed, and how risk and return are priced over time. Topics run from corporate funding decisions and valuation through to markets, portfolios and financial instruments. Graduates often work in corporate finance, banking, investment and asset management, risk analysis and financial planning.

MSc Energy and Sustainability: Energy, Environment and Buildings

Sustainable development studies how human needs — energy, food, housing, work — can be met without exhausting the systems everyone depends on. It draws on economics, environmental science, governance and social equity, and asks who bears the cost of each choice. Graduates often work in development organisations, environmental programmes, policy analysis and corporate responsibility.

MSc Electronic Engineering

Electronic engineering deals with circuits and the devices built from them, from sensors and amplifiers to embedded processors and communication systems. It covers analogue and digital design, signal processing, and the testing of hardware that must work reliably. Graduates often work in electronics design, telecommunications, semiconductors, instrumentation and embedded systems.

MSc Electrochemistry and Battery Technologies

Electrochemistry examines what happens where chemistry meets electricity: how charge moves across interfaces, drives reactions, and stores energy. Laboratory work covers batteries, fuel cells, corrosion, sensors and electroplating alongside underlying theory. Graduates often work in energy storage, materials development, manufacturing, environmental technology and research laboratories.

MSc Education Management and Leadership

Education explores how people learn, and how teaching, curriculum, assessment and school systems shape that learning. The subject draws on psychology and sociology while staying close to what happens in classrooms and institutions. Graduates often work in teaching and training, curriculum development, educational research, policy and administration.

MSc Education

Education explores how people learn, and how teaching, curriculum, assessment and school systems shape that learning. The subject draws on psychology and sociology while staying close to what happens in classrooms and institutions. Graduates often work in teaching and training, curriculum development, educational research, policy and administration.

MSc Clinical Psychology

Measuring how the body's systems are actually functioning — heart, lungs, nerves, circulation — is the work of clinical physiology. Study links physiological principles to practical testing, interpretation of results and interaction with patients. Graduates often work in hospital diagnostic departments, cardiac and respiratory services, medical device companies or clinical research.

MSc Banking and Finance

Finance concerns how money is raised, invested and managed, and how risk and return are priced over time. Topics run from corporate funding decisions and valuation through to markets, portfolios and financial instruments. Graduates often work in corporate finance, banking, investment and asset management, risk analysis and financial planning.

MSc Audiology with Clinical Placement

Acoustics is the science of sound and vibration — how they are produced, how they travel through air, water and solid materials, and how people perceive them. Students work on measurement, noise control, building and room design, audio technology and ultrasound. Graduates often work in engineering consultancy, audio, or research.

MSc Artificial Intelligence

This field studies how information is gathered, verified, analysed and communicated to support security and policy decisions. Attention goes to sources and their limits, analytic reasoning, cognitive bias, secrecy and ethics, along with clear written and spoken assessment. Graduates frequently work in analysis roles, risk and threat consulting, corporate security and policy research.

MPhys Physics with Year of Experimental Research

Physics seeks the rules behind how matter, energy, space and time behave, from particles and atoms to materials, stars and the universe as a whole. Mathematical theory is paired with experiment and measurement. Graduates often move into research, engineering, data and modelling, energy, medical physics, computing and teaching.

MPhys Physics with Space Science

Physics seeks the rules behind how matter, energy, space and time behave, from particles and atoms to materials, stars and the universe as a whole. Mathematical theory is paired with experiment and measurement. Graduates often move into research, engineering, data and modelling, energy, medical physics, computing and teaching.

MPhys Physics with Quantum Science and Technologies

Physics seeks the rules behind how matter, energy, space and time behave, from particles and atoms to materials, stars and the universe as a whole. Mathematical theory is paired with experiment and measurement. Graduates often move into research, engineering, data and modelling, energy, medical physics, computing and teaching.

MPhys Physics with Mathematics

Physics seeks the rules behind how matter, energy, space and time behave, from particles and atoms to materials, stars and the universe as a whole. Mathematical theory is paired with experiment and measurement. Graduates often move into research, engineering, data and modelling, energy, medical physics, computing and teaching.

MPhys Physics with Industrial Placement

Physics seeks the rules behind how matter, energy, space and time behave, from particles and atoms to materials, stars and the universe as a whole. Mathematical theory is paired with experiment and measurement. Graduates often move into research, engineering, data and modelling, energy, medical physics, computing and teaching.

MPH Public Health

Public health concerns the health of populations rather than individual patients: why disease spreads, which conditions cluster where, and what prevention and policy can change. It combines epidemiology, statistics, health promotion and the social causes of illness. Graduates often work in health authorities, non-governmental organisations, research and health programme management.

MA Tesol for Experienced Teachers

English studies covers the literature written in English and the workings of the language itself — how texts are built, how meaning shifts, how writing responds to its moment. Close reading, argument and clear writing are the core skills. Graduates often enter publishing, teaching, media, communications, marketing and law.

MA Tesol

Standard English focuses on the conventions of the standardised form of the language: grammar, vocabulary, register and usage in formal writing and speech. Students examine how these conventions are described and taught, and how they relate to the many varieties people actually speak. Graduates often work in teaching, editing, translation or communications.

MA Global Media and Publishing Management

Media studies and communication analyse how messages are produced, circulated and understood across journalism, broadcasting, advertising, film and digital platforms. Students examine audiences, institutions and the making of meaning, alongside practical production skills. Graduates frequently work in content creation, public relations, marketing communication, media planning, research and cultural organisations.

BSc Politics

Political science analyses power: how governments work, how policy is made, why people vote as they do, and how institutions and ideologies shape collective decisions. Methods range from political theory to statistical analysis of behaviour. Graduates often work in public administration, policy research, campaigning, journalism, international organisations and consultancy.

BSc Nursing (Adult)

Nursing centres on caring for people through illness, recovery and long-term conditions: assessing patients, delivering treatment, managing risk and supporting families. Anatomy, pharmacology and evidence-based practice join communication and ethics. Graduates often work in hospitals, community and primary care, mental health, specialist services, education and health research.

BSc Microbiology

Microbiology studies bacteria, viruses, fungi and other organisms too small to see: how they live, how they cause disease, and how they are used in medicine, agriculture and industry. Laboratory technique is central, from culturing and identification to genetics and analysis. Graduates often work in clinical and research laboratories, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and food safety.

BEng Software Engineering

Software design focuses on how programs are structured before and while they are written: breaking problems into components, choosing patterns and interfaces, and building systems that stay understandable as they grow. Practical coding sits alongside architecture, testing and version control. Graduates often work as software engineers, architects and technical leads.

BEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Electronic engineering deals with circuits and the devices built from them, from sensors and amplifiers to embedded processors and communication systems. It covers analogue and digital design, signal processing, and the testing of hardware that must work reliably. Graduates often work in electronics design, telecommunications, semiconductors, instrumentation and embedded systems.

MSc Politics

Comparative politics sets political systems side by side to explain why they differ — how institutions, elections, parties, protest movements and regimes take shape and change. Students learn case-study and statistical methods and test explanations against evidence from many settings. Graduates often work in research, policy analysis, journalism, international organisations or consultancy.

MSc Management and Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence studies how machines can perceive, learn, reason and act, covering machine learning, neural networks, language and vision, search and planning, and the ethical questions raised along the way. Mathematics and programming underpin the work. Graduates often work in machine learning engineering, research, data roles, robotics and product development.

MSc Management

Business examines how organisations are created, financed, run and grown, from managing people and money to reading markets and making decisions under uncertainty. Coursework blends analysis with practical judgement. Graduates often move into management, consulting and entrepreneurship, or into specialist roles across finance, operations and marketing.

MSc Machine Learning

Machine learning is about building systems that improve at a task by finding patterns in data rather than following rules written by hand. Study covers statistics, probability, optimisation and programming, along with how models are trained, evaluated and deployed responsibly. Graduates often work in software, research, analytics and product teams.

MSc International Management

Business administration concentrates on running an organisation as a whole: coordinating people, budgets, operations and strategy so that separate departments work in step. Attention falls on decisions that cut across functions rather than on a narrow specialism. Graduates often move into general management, operations, consulting, and planning or administrative roles across sectors.

MSc Computer Science

At its core, computer science is about computation: algorithms, data structures, programming languages, operating systems and the theory beneath them. Mathematical reasoning and hands-on building reinforce each other throughout. Graduates often become software engineers, or move into data, security, research, product development and technical roles in almost any industry.