Civil and Environmental Engineering at Southampton: What sets us apart?
The University of Southampton is one of the top universities for civil and environmental engineering in the UK, having been rated consistently high in the top 10 for teaching by the Guardian and Times University Guides in recent years. We also have a very strong international reputation for research, having been awarded the top grade of 5* in the last Research Assessment Exercise in 2001. This excellence helps us attract funding to maintain low student-to-staff ratios, state-of-the-art equipment and laboratories for undergraduates to use. We have a dynamic, lively and friendly environment for study, with opportunities to work with and learn from research teams at the very forefront of their fields. Our links with industry are very strong, which means we can benefit from visiting lecturers and can use case studies from engineering practice in our teaching. Many of our students are sponsored by companies. Often there are options to work on projects with real practical relevance to indust
