Getting Here
Driving directions and details of public transport are shown below.
By rail
Trains from London, Bournemouth/Weymouth, Bristol/South Wales, Portsmouth and the South Coast and the Midlands stop at Southampton Central and/or Southampton Airport Parkway. You can then catch a Uni-link U1 bus to the interchange at the centre of Highfield Campus, or or take a taxi.
By bus or coach
National Express provides regular services from central London, Heathrow, and other parts of the country. Southampton coach station is at Western Esplanade, in the city centre. Our own Uni-link buses connect the University's Southampton campuses with the city centre and both train stations.
By car
Southampton is just 75 miles (120km) from London and 21 miles (35km) from the Channel ports. The M3, M27 and A34 provide fast, direct access while the A36 is the main route to the West Country, Bristol and Wales.
From the M3 – exit at junction 14, following signs for Southampton (A33). Follow the A33 into Bassett Avenue and follow the map/signs to University campuses.
From the M27 (west or east) – leave the M27 at junction 5 (Southampton Airport) and follow the map/signs to University campuses.
Visitor parking
There is a pay and display car park on Highfield Campus, which is sited in the vicinity of Buildings 1 and 16. Please note that it can fill up very quickly during the morning.
By air
Southampton International Airport is a few minutes away from the Southampton campuses by Uni-link bus or taxi. There is a full UK domestic service, as well as flights to mainland Europe and the Channel Islands.
I have had an amazing time at ECS. It's such a creative environment driven by enthusiastic academics and hard-working students who share a passion for engineering. What I have achieved as an undergraduate is beyond all the expectations I had before starting university and has increased my appreciation of the power of group collaboration. As we move on to the next chapter in our lives I really look forward to seeing how fellow graduates shape the world around themselves and how our common thread, ECS, has prepared us for a career in this fast-paced industry.
Student Achievements at ECS Student Showcase
In 2024, the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) hosted its inaugural Student Showcase at The Steel Yard in London. This high-profile event featured a hand-picked selection of exceptional student projects developed during the academic year within a variety of courses across ECS. The showcased projects demonstrated creativity, technical skill, and real-world impact – whether solving industry-led challenges in group design projects or tackling advanced problems in individual research guided by leading academics.
Students particularly valued the opportunity to present their work to industry professionals, in the form of a “reversed careers fair” and receive insightful feedback, and facilitated contacts that have even resulted in job offers!
Following its success, the Student Showcase will continue to feature in our calendars as an annual event. The upcoming Student Showcase will be held on 10 June 2025, this time on our Highfield campus, to show the best of our student work in the context it was developed.
To attend, please register whilst there are still spaces!
For more details and information on any other questions, please email Dr Adriana Wilde, Careers Fair and Student Showcase Coordinator.
Watch the video and get a glimpse into the project work that students undertake in our School of Electronics and Computer Science.
Women in ECS being represented at a national conference
Women from the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) participate in the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium, an annual one-day conference for women students of Computing and related subjects in the UK, organised by the British Computer Society (BCS). Over the past 13 years, the colloquium has travelled across the four home countries of the United Kingdom, being hosted in cities such as Leeds, Cardiff, Birmingham, Bath, Nottingham, Reading, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Aberystwyth, and Manchester, rarely repeating locations.
The 2025 BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium was held on April 16th at the University of Glasgow, counting with the support of the University of Southampton as Gold supporters. Annually, the event covers a wide range of topics in computing and technology, including algorithms, business IT, AI, data science, programming, robotics, startups, and careers. This is achieved through a variety of keynote talks, panel discussions, poster presentations and a career fair. The 2025 edition of this event was attended by close to 300 participants, including eight women in ECS. Lecturers Dr Jennifer Williams (PGR recruitment officer for ECS), Dr Adriana Wilde (ECS Student Showcase Coordinator), and student Naomi Pitzer (chair of the Women in ECS student society) spoke to careers fair attendees about opportunities for further study at Southampton, both for MSc and PhD research.
Posters presented by students Tatiana Nicolopoulos, Ananya Kadali, Semeli Kyriacou, Yueyi Song, Nitika Panta and Manisha Gurung received praise in their respective categories, with Ananya earning an honourable mention in the Masters’ category, for work she did as part of her group design project on “Generative AI for Facial Biometrics” with Precious Durojaiye, Sunnie Jehan-Morrison, Barney Evans and Orasiki Wellington.
The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium provides an excellent opportunity for students to gain valuable exposure to the IT industry, learn from researchers, and meet fellow students from across the UK in a safe and supportive environment. It also helps students build academic friendships and expand their professional networks.
The 2026 BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium will take place on April 9th-10th at the University of Bath, and Women in ECS are already planning to make an impactful contribution once more.
What employers, students and staff talk about the opportunities for our students
The reputation of our degree programmes and the high quality of our students has ensured that our graduates are in constant demand by companies leading the development of the world's high-tech industries.
To meet this demand, and to ensure that our students achieve their full potential in the jobs they want, we have our own successful and very well established careers and employability initiative.
Working with employers
We operate a vigorous programme of engagement with employers, including our annual Engineering and Technology Careers Fair in February. Throughout the year we support a full programme of employer visits, sponsored events and activities, ensuring that our students are aware and informed of the opportunities available to them. We have interactions with around 300 companies each year, including our Affiliated and Laureate companies (see below), with whom we have close partner relationships. We advertise over 400 technology positions every year.
For further information contact Adriana Wilde, Careers Fair and Student Showcase Coordinator.
What do our students do after Graduation?
ECS ranked joint second in the UK for graduate employability in Electronics and Electrical Engineering (Complete University Guide 2019) and average earnings for our MEng Computer Science graduates is £32,000 six months after graduating (Unistats 2019). These are excellent results, reflecting the very high regard that employers have for our graduates. The majority of ECS graduates take up high-quality roles in the technology industry, as software engineers, app or Web developers, technology analysts, design engineers, systems engineers, or power engineers, working in leading technology-based multinationals or recent start-ups from London’s Tech City, in government departments and organizations, online retailers, innovative energy and transport providers, and the technology departments of City finance houses. Read more about our graduates on our alumni page. Our Physics and Astronomy students are also highly ranked for graduate employability and take up roles in the space, energy, and finance industry, as well as undertaking PhD research and joining the teaching profession.
Enterprise and entrepreneurship
At Southampton, aspiring entrepreneurs will have the chance to develop the professional enterprise skills needed to make their mark on the world.
Discover how we can help your business dreams.Internships and placements
The majority of our students take up paid summer internships during their degree studies, usually after years two and three. These offer great experience and also provide our students with better knowledge of the kinds of roles which are available to them as graduates. Summer internships last from six to 14 weeks. Our new MEng with Industrial Studies degree offers a 12-month placement with a company as part of the programme and a number of the Physics degrees also offer internships in industry as well as specialized research positions.