University of Southampton

Popular research university The University of Southampton is situated in Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1862 as Hartley Institution, and in 1952 it was granted university status. With the exception of 2018, when it was ranked at position 102, it has consistently been among the top 100 universities in the world according to the QS World University Ranking. Since then, the university has made considerable strides, and in 2021, it was ranked 90th. Since 2018, US News & World Report has also listed it among the top 100 universities in the world.

Southampton has maintained a ranking in the top 150 of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU, Shanghai Ranking) for the past five years. Similarly to that, THE has ranked in the top 150 worldwide since 2017. When we examine the University of Southampton's ranking in the UK, we can see that it has fallen outside of the top 50 institutions. Since 2017, Southampton has not been listed among the top 50 universities in the UK by The Complete University Guide or The Guardian.

When it comes to the University of Southampton's subject rankings, we can see that the ranking publishers tend to favour its engineering and business programmes. According to Times Higher Education's PG Business and Economics ranking for 2020 and 2021, it is among the 151–175 best. For the years 2019 and 2020, QS's Accounting and Finance ranking placed it in the range of 201-250. The University of Southampton is ranked among the top 100 institutions in its field by prestigious UK publishers.

Since 2017, The Complete University Guide has placed it outside of the top 50 in the UK for Accounting & Finance and Business & Management. The Guardian also ranked it outside the top 100 in the UK for business, management, and marketing as well as accounting and finance. From 2018 to 2020, THE graded it lower than 100 for PG Engineering and Technology. It has been set between 101 and 125 for 2021. From 2017 through 2020, QS ranked it among the top 150.