Life on campus
Find out more about living and studying at Southampton.
Flexible study
Our undergraduate programmes offer a grounding in the essentials plus a range of optional modules, so you can build a course that reflects your interests.
Our programmes include a mix of compulsory and optional modules. The compulsory modules will provide a solid foundation for your chosen discipline area, building the knowledge and skills required for the remainder of your study.
Our optional modules allow you to tailor your studies. You may decide to retain a broad-based path approach to your chosen discipline or choose to specialise in a specific theme.
What would you choose?
For full details about specialist pathways and module options, take a look at the individual programme pages.
Find out moreCurriculum Innovation
You can benefit from our new Curriculum Innovation Programme that lets you personalise your learning by choosing interdisciplinary modules, or existing modules from other programmes such as entrepreneurship, law, management, mathematics and modern languages.
Free language courses for new students
Studying at Southampton brings with it the opportunity to prepare yourself to be a transnational graduate. You can now study a language free of charge, alongside your degree programme. Whatever your area of study, whatever your time commitment, there is a language opportunity for you!
Languages offered are Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
Key facts
Southampton is recognised as world-leading for Electronics and Computer Science.
We are ranked in the top three universities in the UK for computer sciences and IT
Southampton University has pioneered many of the most important advances in computer science and web technology of the past 10 years
Take a tour
Take a tour around the campus and meet some of our current students