University of Southampton
University Rd, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
Description:
The University of Southampton was founded in 1862 and received university status in 1952.
The university offers training in eight faculties and offers a wide range of courses at graduate and postgraduate level, including medicine, law, humanities and social sciences, engineering, natural sciences and mathematics.
About 16 thousand students and 6 thousand graduate students study here. The university is truly international, attracting the best faculty from all over the world and educating about 2,000 international students from more than 100 countries. Southampton is the UK’s leading university for engineering – it is home to several global research centres.
The university prides itself on excellent living conditions for students and a huge range of cafes and restaurants.