Music at Southampton

The Music department of the University of Southampton offers expert tuition and guidance to a large community of students, its staff covering one of the broadest ranges of interests in the country. From medieval music to indie pop, from formal analysis to feminist musicology, and in contemporary composition in all its forms, Music at Southampton is at the leading edge of research and practice worldwide. Composition and performance are taught by active practitioners of international standing, and our musicology staff are in demand as experts and authors by performers, record companies and publishers in Britain and abroad.

Study Music at Southampton

We are one of just four departments nationally to obtain the highest possible award (5*A) in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise; and our average (3.25 out of 4.00) in the 2008 RAE put us in the top three departments for research in the UK according to media league tables. And with an 'Excellent' in the Music Teaching Quality Assessment, we are one of only two departments nationally to have obtained the highest possible ranking in both teaching and research. With strong links across the University and within the musical community, both locally and nationally, we offer an imaginative, integrated and fully supported environment for both undergraduate and postgraduate study.