Southampton was granted the award in recognition of its pioneering work in Computer Science that has grown in scale and global eminence.
Our international reputation attracts students and researchers from around the world, provides academic leadership and continues to define and develop new leading-edge technologies and approaches.
Our computer scientists are renowned for their world-leading achievements include the development of pioneering hypermedia systems, laying the foundations of agent-based computing and intelligent systems, and for founding and fostering Web Science as an academic discipline.
We continue to set the standard at the forefront of computer science research and education, with our academics and researchers driving forward the future exploration of Computer Science.