UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

The university’s origins date back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862. In 1902, the Institution developed into the Hartley University College, awarding degrees from the University of London. On 29 April 1952, the institution was granted full university status, allowing it to award its own degrees. Southampton is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities in Britain.

The University of Southampton has its origin as the Hartley Institution which was formed in 1862 from a benefaction by Henry Robinson Hartley. Hartley had inherited a fortune from two generations of successful wine merchants. At his death in 1850, he left a bequest of £103,000 to the Southampton Corporation for the study and advancement of the sciences in his property on Southampton’s High Street, in the city centre. On 29 April 1952, Queen Elizabeth II granted the University of Southampton a Royal Charter, the first to be given to a university during her reign, which enabled it to award degrees. Six faculties were created: Arts, Science, Engineering, Economics, Education and Law.

COURSES

Faculty of Business, Law & Art
Faculty of Engineering & The Environment
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Humanities 
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Natural & Environmental Sciences
Faculty of Physical Sciences & Engineering
Faculty of Social, Human & Mathematical Sciences

ABOUT THE AREA

The University of Southampton is a research university located in Southampton, England. The university’s main campus is located in the residential area of Highfield. Opened on 20 June 1914, the site was initially used as a military hospital during World War I. The campus grew gradually, mainly consisting of detailed red brick buildings designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. In 1956, Sir Basil Spence was commissioned to prepare a masterplan of the campus for the foreseeable future.This included incorporating the University Road, that split the campus in two and the quarry of Sir Sidney Kimber’s brickyard that itself was split by a stream. Unable to remove the road and the private houses along it, Spence designed many of the buildings facing away from it, using contemporary designs working in concrete, glass and mosaic.

Avenue Campus is currently home to the Faculty of Humanities, with the exception of Music, and is located a short distance away from the main Highfield campus. The site previously housed the Southampton Tramsheds and Richard Taunton’s College, of which the existing building still stands on the site. The National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) is located in Southampton Docks some three miles south of the main university campus. The campus is home of the university’s Ocean and Earth Sciences department and is also a campus of the Natural Environment Research Council’s research institute, the National Oceanography Centre. Five of the National Oceanography Centre’s research divisions are based on the campus.

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